General Lord Charles Guthrie. Photo from The Daily MailFrom The Sun:
A FORMER head of the Armed Forces has launched a scathing attack on the Ministry of Defence over its handling of the war in Afghanistan.
General Lord Charles Guthrie said our brave servicemen and women were starved of single-minded leadership because of ministers who "sit frozen in indecision".
The former UK Chief of Defence Staff said: "Britain is at war, but one would never know it walking around Whitehall. For too many politicians it is merely another day of awkward things happening in far away places.
"The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan appear no more than inconvenient blips - something to be muddled through until things return to normal."
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My Comment: A must read piece on the depressing state of the U.K. military.
I recalled a few years ago that most of the Generals and officials in the UK MoD were making public their contempt of U.S. military policy and strategy in both Iraq and Afghanistan. With hindsight, it appears that while they were pointing a finger at the Americans, they were actually pointing three finger on themselves.
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