General Sir James Malcolm Glover, KCB, MBE, DL (25 March 1929 – 4 June 2000) was a senior British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces from 1985 to 1987.
Educated at Wellington College, Jimmy Glover, as he was generally known, was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1949.
[1] In retirement he was a Director of BP and Chairman of Royal Armouries International plc.
[2] 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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