British Army’s former commander in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp says Twin Towers attack sparked World War Three
Col Kemp said 'the modern version of a world war is what we’re seeing'
BRITAIN's former commander in Afghanistan has said that World War Three has not only already begun, but has been raging for 15 years.
Colonel Richard Kemp told talkRadio “I think we’re well into the Third World War. The major beginning of World War Three was 9/11".
But, the former Army Commander has played down fears of imminent nuclear conflict.
He described the war on terror that erupted after planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York as "the modern version of a world war".
Col Kemp said: “I don’t subscribe to the view the conflict in the middle-east will lead to nuclear conflict.
"I don’t think it will lead to the kind of carnage that some doom-mongers are predicting.
“It’s essentially the first international insurgency, as opposed to an insurgency which takes place within the civilian population in one particular country."
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Col Kemp continued: "We now have an international insurgency which is effectively Islamic jihadists the world over, who are determined to instigate their way of life onto Muslim and non-Muslim countries by violent means.
“There is not as much death and destruction in this kind of conflict as we saw in the first and second world wars.
"But the issue is the duration. It’s been going on much longer than the first and second world wars combined so the duration is one issue and the other is the geographical scale of it.
"It’s happening more or less everywhere in the world.
“We’ve seen fighting take place in virtually all countries around the world since then, albeit not in a form that we would recognise.
“The modern version of a world war is what we’re seeing.”
In recent months several military and political figures have expressed fears that disputes around the world could erupt into a global conflict.
In September Britain's Admiral Lord West warned: "We are in a more dangerous, chaotic and unpredictable time than any other in my 50 years in the force."
Russia, the US and China were both highlighted as flashpoints that could kick off global conflict.
All three nations want to remain a global superpower – if not the only one – and are preparing for war, it has been claimed.
But they oppose each other on a swathe of issues across the globe, creating a delicate political balance that could collapse and engulf nuclear states and alliances such as NATO.
Earlier this week Turkey's deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also added his voice to serious concerns saying that the conflict in Syria had put the world “on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war”
Today the MoD said that Royal Navy warships will “man-mark” a menacing Russia fleet that is preparing a pincer move on the English Channel.
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