That is correct. General Sir David RichardsKCB CBE DSO ADC Gen Chief of the Defence Staff in his Order of the day to all those in the Armed Forces and for the information of all MOD civil servants today, actually invoked the famous civil rights and peace campaigner when he wrote:
"Martin Luther King once famously said "I have a dream"*. Well I have the military version of that – I have a vision. A vision based on delivering the Government’s long-term strategic Intent on the one hand and on achieving strategically vital success in Afghanistan, under General Petraeus and with our allies, on the other. Both these aims are clearly inextricably linked. I would ask you all now selflessly to work out how you can best help deliver this vision. Much innovative and radical thinking, a preparedness to shed outmoded or now irrelevant attitudes and structures, will surely be needed. "
* You can read the full text of MLK's speech at the following link. You decide of its invocation in the context of the Afghanistan conflict is justified, or just stupified.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
You could make this up, but no one would believe it!
