Thread: UK 'may have 40-year Afghan role'
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Old 09-08-2009, 11:12   #6
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Re: UK 'may have 40-year Afghan role'
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Originally Posted by Tarantella View Post
It's simpler than that. You can spend billions of tax payers money on maintaining standing armies, navies and airforces but for them to be combat effective you need wars.
And it suits the western world to have a military force in the middle east.
Not far to move when the oil starts to run short and you want to safeguard your supplies.
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