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A brief note on Afghanistan

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The UK’s commander in Helmand, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has said that we shouldn’t expect a decisive military victory in Afghanistan; I wholeheartedly agree. He should have added that there was never going to be a military victory in Afghanistan.
Setting up the Afghan government was never going to be enough, either. The international community needs to [...]