Not rocket science

No-one but no-one wants to read the truth. This is only what has been said by the professionals for the past ten years, and with the casualty count mounting, it is about time we had a serious debate on it. That means leaving those half-wits in the Westminster Village in no doubt that their negligence is reckless. Nay, criminal.

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It's easy to forget that Britain has 9,000 troops fighting a war in Afghanistan, as we seldom hear about the campaign unless someone dies. So we lead the magazine this week with a striking analysis from the academic who advised the government on its Afghan conflict in the Treasury, Foreign Office and MoD. Matt Cavanagh says that short-termism is the problem: our six month troop rotation means the military never learns and fights the same battle, taking and retaking the same territory. The heroism of our soldiers shouldn't blind us to the fact that the fact that the military is a vast bureaucracy, structurally incapable of learning. We haven't fought a five-year war. We've fought a six-month campaign, ten times.

Fraser Nelson Editor of The Spectator Read more at www.spectator.co.uk

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