Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank obituary

Senior officer in the British army and confidant of Tony Blair who endorsed the bombing of Serbia as chief of the defence staffCharles Guthrie, Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, who has died aged 86, was head of the British army then chief of the general staff during some of the most turbulent times of Britain’s modern armed forces in the early years of the Tony Blair government.Regarded by some as a political general, for his closeness to the prime minister during the peak of Bla