Gen. Sir Michael Rose was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. After attending the Staff College, Camberley [which he later commanded], he became Commanding Officer of the 22nd SAS Regiment from 1979 to 1982, during which time the Iranian Embassy Siege and Falkland War took place.
Sir Michael was Commander, United Nations Protection Force, Bosnia-Hertzegovina from 1994 to 1995 when the war in Bosnia was at its height, and subsequently became Adjutant-General and
Aide-de-Camp General to The Queen until 1997 when he retired from the Army. He was awarded the QGM 1981, made a CBE 1986, was knighted with a KCB 1994, and received the DSO in 1995.
Sir Michael has had extensive operational experience including Aden, Malaysia, the Middle East Northern Ireland and the Falklands.
In 2006 he came once again to public attention when he criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme "To go to war on what turns out to be false grounds is something that no one should be allowed to walk away from" In many newspaper articles he also reflected the unease felt in the British armed forces about the legality, and indeed the practicality, of the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. In his book Washington's War he compares the mistakes made by the British during the American War of Independence with those which were made by the Americans in Iraq.
