UK Needs Global Military Force Post-Afghan -Fox -- Reuters
Speaking to a meeting of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank, Fox said pulling British troops from Afghanistan before 2015 would boost militants everywhere, because only by then would British forces, working with the U.S.-led coalition, have achieved their security aims.
Fox told the gathering in Geneva of military officers and strategists that British defence planners conducting a review of military priorities had to take account of the possibility that its forces might have to intervene again elsewhere in the world.
"We're going to have a long-term battle against transnational terrorism and it will pop up in a lot of different places over a long period and we are going to have to face up to that," he said.
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My Comment: In a time of massive UK defense budget cuts, some members of the British government are talking about global military forces and fighting a long term battle against transnational terrorism.
Am I missing something here?
2 comments:
it´s only a choice if you fight them now, mostly abroad, or in 50 years mostly at home -- the money -will- be spent
I am sure they will eventually find a way to get the money, but for now their rhetoric contradicts their actions.
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