General Sir James Malcolm Glover, (25 March 1929 – 4 June 2000) was a senior British Army officer who served as

Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces (CINCLAND), was a senior officer in the British Army. CINCLAND commanded HQ Land Forces, an administrative apparatus that had responsibility for all of the army's fighting units in the United Kingdom (excluding Nort ...

from 1985 to 1987.

Army career

Educated at

Wellington College Wellington College may refer to: *Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England ** Wellington College International Shanghai ** Wellington College International Tianjin *Wellington College, Wellington, New Z ...

, Jimmy Glover, as he was generally known, was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1949.Debrett's People of Today 1994 He transferred to the

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in 1956 and served with the brigade during the

Malayan Emergency The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces o ...

.Sir James Glover, Obituary
The Guardian, 6 June 2000 He was

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of the 3rd Battalion Royal Green Jackets from 1970 to 1971. He then went on to command 19 Air Portable Brigade from 1974 to 1975. He was Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland from 1979 to 1980. He was then Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence) from 1981 to 1983 and Vice Chief of the General Staff from 1983 to 1985. He served as the

from 1985 to 1987 when he retired.

Later career

In retirement he was a Director of BP and

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of Royal Armouries International plc. He died in 2000, aged 71. In 1988 in a BBC documentary by journalist Peter Taylor, Glover was asked by Taylor if the Provisional IRA could be militarily defeated to which Glover replied: ''In no way, can or will the Provisional Irish Republican Army ever be defeated militarily.''

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Army career

Later career

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