Margaret Thatcher was giving her full attention to President George Bush’s opening address at a conference at the Aspen Institute in Colorado when news of Saddam’s invasion broke. She steadied nerves by ordering the nearest Royal Navy warships to sail to the region. The British Prime Minister showed her experience as a military campaign veteran for whom the lessons of the twentieth century were clear. The next morning, President Bush asked her: ‘Margaret, what do we do?’3 Mrs Thatcher, who famously ordered the retaking of the Falkland Islands by military force after the Argentine invasion in
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