Afghanistan: Too Little Too Late
Mick Smith Weblog
The decision to send out a single company of infantry plus two platoons to reinforce our troops in southern Afghanistan demonstrates nothing other than the desperate state of the British infantry after five years of Blair's Wars. Overstretched and understaffed, it seems army commanders do not have anywhere near the numbers of troops needed to fight two major enduring operational deployments, not to mention the smaller ones in Bosnia and Kosovo. Des Browne's announcement of 900 extra troops for Afghanistan might sound impressive on the face of it but it was a just a pathetically clumsy conjuring trick designed to cover up the fact that he is only sending out 200 extra infantry. Read more
The decision to send out a single company of infantry plus two platoons to reinforce our troops in southern Afghanistan demonstrates nothing other than the desperate state of the British infantry after five years of Blair's Wars. Overstretched and understaffed, it seems army commanders do not have anywhere near the numbers of troops needed to fight two major enduring operational deployments, not to mention the smaller ones in Bosnia and Kosovo. Des Browne's announcement of 900 extra troops for Afghanistan might sound impressive on the face of it but it was a just a pathetically clumsy conjuring trick designed to cover up the fact that he is only sending out 200 extra infantry. Read more
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