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31-08-2007, 12:32 PM
The head of the Army has ordered his senior staff to make preparations for “a generation of conflict”, in a speech that the Ministry of Defence tried to keep secret.
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In a letter to Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, the Prime Minister also pledged that he would not seek an early withdrawal of British toops from Iraq for political reasons. “I believe that we have clear obligations to discharge,” he said.
Last year General Dannatt said he believed that the troops should be pulled out “some time soon”. However, in his June address, he seemed to be preparing for decades of fighting ahead — presumably with Afghanistan in mind. He had held a meeting of senior officers at an army development forum to address the question: “How do we prepare ourselves for potentially a generation of conflict?”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2337285.ece
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In a letter to Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, the Prime Minister also pledged that he would not seek an early withdrawal of British toops from Iraq for political reasons. “I believe that we have clear obligations to discharge,” he said.
Last year General Dannatt said he believed that the troops should be pulled out “some time soon”. However, in his June address, he seemed to be preparing for decades of fighting ahead — presumably with Afghanistan in mind. He had held a meeting of senior officers at an army development forum to address the question: “How do we prepare ourselves for potentially a generation of conflict?”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2337285.ece