Lieutenant General Richard Nuge

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Today in Focus · The security report the UK government doesn’t want you to see · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

We were sort of the second wave in.

And the army wasn't really prepared for desert ops.

It got extremely good at it, but it wasn't really prepared.

We weren't prepared.

We weren't acclimatized.

We had no air conditioning at all.

And so we just had to live in the weather.

And we were in 50 to 55 degrees of heat with extraordinary levels of humidity.

My chefs were cooking in – and the temperature, we checked it, the temperature that they were cooking in was 70 degrees –

You learn very, very quickly that the environment, and in this case heat, can do enormous damage.

We used 250 saline drips to keep our soldiers alive.

None of my soldiers were killed by enemy action.

But one, very sadly, and it was heat-related, had a heart attack and died.

And I had to send five home with heat stroke because they couldn't cope with the heat.

So it became an immediate question of how are we able to cope as an army, as a bunch of soldiers, in this case a battle group of a thousand, how could I sustain my effectiveness, if you like, if it is so hot?

So that sparked an idea, well, hang on a minute, if climate change is making this worse and

What are we doing about it?

And so that became a piece.

But then the third piece was, why will we go to war in the future?

We in the military need to understand why wars are created, why wars are started.

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