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Marines charged with murder over Afghanistan death
Five Royal Marines charged with murder over the death of an insurgent in Afghanistan in 2011...

The whole ALP scheme was a disaster waiting to happen

I watched the third episode last night, harrowing stuff. I've read Dead Men Risen and seen some of the clips of the contact which killed Mark Evison before. Seeing it in it's entirety was all the...

This is slightly off topic, but it made me chucle. Somtimes satire can say it best.
From The Daily Mash: Predator drone visiting Afghan families on condolence mission....

You're right, situation with the Warrior is exactly the same as it was with the Viking. Both vehicles designed for use in a war that never happened and unsuitable to this kind of conflict. Reading...

I think the liability should lie with the idiots at the MoD who pissed away billions through poor aquisition. When it results in the deaths of soldiers in the field and the overall weakening of our...

Comments on a rather crass cartoonhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/mar/08/steve-bell-cartoon-british-soldiers-death-afghanistan.

What a poorly written article! I found myself...

A delusion that's more palatable to the British public, than the truth of a botched nation building exercise.

That said, if you were read the comment on The Guardian we (the British) are there so...

The Times (London) is reporting that British troops are to hand over Nad-e Ali (www.thetimes.co.uk). Can watch the video on the main page without having to subscribe.

Well I think the most interesthing thing about small wars or insurgencies in the last decade is that there had been a great deal of soul searching. People, academics, militaries have set out to find...

Slight off sub-topic here. Last night BBC1 showed a nice little docu entitled "Bomb Squad", title says it all. It gave an interesting insight to this side of the Afghan conflict. Showing what they...

We need to be critical of how we have operated in Afghanistan, failing to admit we have done something wrong or that perhaps went about it in the wrong way means that mistakes will me made again and...

US Marines do six month tours as well don't they? I remember seeing it in some documentary. They do six months because they often do more intense ops, not sure what Army units would have to say on...

The length of tours is a tricky one as you've said JMA the reationale behind the six month length is to avoid adverse affects on family life and to reduce the liklihood of PTSD. The issues...

Until it is grown somewhere else, this is my point. Destroying poppy fields in Helmand and the rest of Afghanistan does not mean an end to heroin consumption on our streets. While buying the resin...

Britain had ended up being involved in a role it had not set out to do. Planning for not firing a shot in two years, resulted in something like one million bullets being fired in anger in a year. The...

I think the biggest failing of British forces in Helmand and ISAF troops across the country, was to stumble blindly into the country with only the courage of their convictions to comfort them. As we...

In the middle of reading Dead Men Risen at the moment and apart from being quite harrowing it is also rather shocking. The inability of the Army to be self-critical has cause many deaths.

This series has been very good so far, it hasn't dumbed down for the most part. Shame it's relegated to bbc 2 where the unwashed masses won't see it.

I hope I get to wear those trousers!

By George I'd be daft not to! I'm in the middle of filling out the "How Did You Find Out About This Vacancy" Will JMA suffice or would you rather your full name. I'm considering changing my name to...

Fantastic idea, what would I do without you!

I've heard as much from a civil service fast streamer, it's the reason the fast stream was set up in the first place, to get out the people who had gotten used to a sedentary way of working. I can...

Maybe I'm sufftering from battered wife syndrome and just want to change him, I meant the foreign office. What about the Home Office then?

Well that certainly made me reconsider joining the Foreign Office