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Training Afghanistan's infantry is just a beginning, not the end 

MANY of the 500 soldiers of the Royal Welsh battle group just ordered to Afghanistan will be involved in the critical task of training Afghan...

Now we will seriously degrade the enemy, says McChrystal 

US GENERAL Stanley McChrystal rallied troops in Afghanistan this morning by echoing Winston Churchill's famous wartime claim that "this is...

The surge means Britain's excellent troops can start to see a life 

WITH the speech at West Point and the endorsement of the General Stanley McChrystal strategy, President Obama has finally taken ownership of...

We'll hit the Taliban until their eyeballs bleed, says UK general 

ALLIED troops in Afghanistan will strike the Taliban "until their eyeballs bleed", a senior British military adviser declared today.

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We'll strike the Taliban until their eyes bleed, says general 

ALLIED troops will strike the Taliban "until their eyeballs bleed", a senior British military adviser said today.

General Sir...

Withdrawal date 'will let the Taliban build up their forces' 

BARACK OBAMA's new military strategy for Afghanistan was attacked today by critics who said his 2011 withdrawal date gave succour to the...

The surge means Britain's excellent troops can start to see a life 

WITH the speech at West Point and the endorsement of the General Stanley McChrystal strategy, President Obama has finally taken ownership of...

'We'll hit Taliban until eyes bleed' [Edition 3] 

ALLIED troops will strike the Taliban "until their eyeballs bleed", a senior British military adviser said today.

General Sir...

Like laying tracks in front of a train... the race to forge new 

ON A lunar landscape of hardened mud and rock littered with the hulks of Russian tanks, the new Afghan army is being shaped, and with it the...

Helmand waits for huge surge of 20,000 US soldiers 

THIS dusty air base, one of the biggest in south-west Asia, is expecting a human earthquake later this week with the arrival of up to 20,000...