From the article:...(Blunt speaking)"Fortunately, up on the radio came [commander of the British forces] General Mike Jackson, whose exact words at the time were, ‘I’m not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III...“He told us, why don’t we encircle the airfield instead?...
I wasn’t there, but some of the details are coming back. IIRC, The perfumed prince was huffing and puffing and playing a game of chicken with the Ruskies. He was not happy that they rushed to Prsitna. I think that Jackson called his bluff and Clark backed off. Capt. Blunt may have been there, but he would have been a little meerkat in the middle of two bull elephants.