Wikileaks expose Afghan military disputes

From day one I have advocated getting at Al Qaeda, giving them the thrashing of all time, then withdrawing with this warning "We can come back".

But no. Having ignored two millennium of history, it was decided that modern arms could do something that no power in history has been able to do. The one thing they ignored, you cannot instantaneously put 21st century brains in pre-BC heads.

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WikiLeaks: US chiefs blamed British failures for high levels of violence in Sangin

American military commanders said that Britain repeatedly failed to secure its part of Helmand province in Afghanistan, leaked diplomatic cables have disclosed.

Some of the fiercest US criticism was aimed at British operations around Sangin in northern Helmand Photo: AP

The extremely high levels of violence in Sangin, where 106 British soldiers have been killed, reflected a failure to concentrate forces and mount decisive attacks against the Taliban, US commanders are said to have believed. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

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