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Originally Posted by Damien
I don't believe they are well equipped. It seems pretty certain they are not. I was saying in this case it wasn't a shortage of Helicopters that caused it (although it easily could have been).
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Cart and Horse.
AFAIK you could send other another 50 choppers to Afghanistan, we haven't got the pilots to fly them.
The problem we have is that running up to the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts we had been changing the nature of the British armed forces. Everybody thought that the days of the British being involved in a lengthy land offensive were pretty much over once the wall came down.
Therefore the army was being formed into a strike force; go in, sort it out, leave.
We haven't budgeted, and we're not structured for a 20year plan. Therefore we just don't have the equipment or manpower for such a campaign.