Graeme Lamb

Lt Gen Sir Graeme Lamb is a retired British Army officer who served as the commander of the SAS and Commander Field Army, and also held senior military positions in the Western campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since retiring, Lamb has held several private sector roles, notably as a director at controversial private security firm Aegis Defence Services and as a special adviser to G3 and S4Si.

Iraq

Lamb was General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division South-East, in Iraq July 2003 – December 2003, and Senior British Military Adviser to Iraq, September 2006 – July 2007.

Bahrain

Lamb is an adviser to G3, which was hired by the Bahrain government's Information Affairs Authority in July 2011, according to official tender documents, for a sum of £1.5 million (US$ 2,370,000). G3 was tasked with developing a "media campaign to support Bahrain's position in the international community".

This led to allegations that Lamb may have been paid to praise Bahrain's Al Khalifa regime in public comments and written columns during the Bahraini uprising.[27]

Affiliations

• G3 - acts as a 'special adviser'
• Aegis Defence Services director

Articles published

• Times of London: Don't Lump Bahrain In With Libya and Syria, Aug 15, 2011
• Guardian: Why narrowly cast the push for democracy as the 'Arab spring'?, Feb 22, 2012
• Bahrain News Agency: Former British General praises reforms, efforts, Feb 23, 2012
• Gulf Daily News: Bahrain has every right to be respected, Feb 23, 2012
• Gulf Daily News: A 'little gem of a country', Feb 23, 2012
• Gulf Daily News: Listen to the silent majority!, Feb 23, 2012

External Resources

• Bill Kincaid, The RDS Military Interview: Lieutenant General Graeme Lamb, RUSI, 11 August 2008.
• Oral Evidence, Iraq Inquiry, 9 December 2009.
• Richard Norton-Taylor, Profile: Graeme Lamb, the soldier who has the ear of American commanders, The Guardian, 10 March 2010.
• Andrew Gilligan, Graeme Lamb: British general's company paid to support Bahrain dictatorship, Telegraph, 11 March 2012.
• Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Graeme Lamb Meetings, Political Influence Database