So.. no withdrawal from Afghanistan any time soon then…
By Angela Harbutt
Today the Government has told us that it intends our forces to be in Afghanistan for some considerable time to come. OK it didnt say that exactly. What it did say was that “hard decisions” had to be made on what programmes to abandon in order to enhance frontline support by £900 million over the next three years.
Amongst other things it is committing to splashing out on 22 new Chinook helicopters….the first ten of which will not be ready til 2013 and the remaining dozen some time thereafter. So we are clearly planning to stay in Afghanistan for some considerable time then – or do we have some other sunny destination in mind?
Tags: Afghanistan, chinooks, MOD
