British army is 'dangerously small', says former top general
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The former head of Britain's armed forces has warned against planned cuts in the standing army, saying they would leave it "dangerously small and over-committed."
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There are too few British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do not have all the equipment they need, increasing the risk they may fail in their missions there, a parliamentary committee report due out Wednesday will warn, The Guardian said.
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U.S. plans for handling Iraq after the  2003 invasion were &quot;fatally flawed,&quot; a retired British general  said, adding that the U.S. administration had refused to listen  to British concerns about postwar planning.
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Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops....
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Former prime minister Sir John Major has warned Britain and the US they can not afford to leave Iraq in "chaos".
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The threat posed by the Taleban in Afghanistan was underestimated, the British defence secretary is set to admit.
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Since their troops joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq almost two years ago, British commanders and politicians have depicted their soldiers as less combative, less abrasive and less trigger-happy in dealing ...
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A lack of personnel is creating a "clear danger"  the military will be unable to maintain its commitments, MPs warn.
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The UK government faces fresh claims that its troops in Afghanistan lack vital equipment.
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Britain's top commander in Iraq has joined a growing debate over whether Iraq has descended into civil war, insisting it was &quot;at the very best, a civil war in miniature.&quot;
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Britain's new army chief has warned that the country's military is stretched to its limits, as commanders reeled from a fatal weekend plane crash and fresh attacks which left another British soldier dead.
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The Ministry of Defence plays down an attack on US post-war policy in Iraq by the former British army chief.
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The head of the British Army has warned that his soldiers are 'just' about coping with demands placed on them.
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Afghanistan could degenerate into a "failed state" if NATO were to pull out troops and abandon efforts to stabilize the country, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday.
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A retired British general who led his country&#39;s forces into Iraq called the Pentagon&#39;s planning after the war &quot;intellectually bankrupt,&quot; in comments to The Washington Post published Saturday.
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British government announced on Thursday the details to restructure the country&#39;s army forces, saying that the changes would make it more flexible and specialized.
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The British deputy to the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday the country's sectarian conflict is not a full-blown civil war but could be described as a "civil war in miniature."