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,' in comments published on Sunday.
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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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The top U.S. general in Iraq said Wednesday he believes Iraqi security forces can take over security with little coalition support within a year to 18 months.
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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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Any British troops sent from southern Iraq to help out in the more dangerous US-controlled zone to the north would only be redeployed for a few weeks, according to the top British general in Iraq.
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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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Iraqi forces will not be ready to assume full responsibility for their nation's security for years, and the U.S. military should be cautious in planning to reduce its 157,000-strong force in Iraq given past setbacks, the American general in charge of the teams that advise Iraqi forces warned...
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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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Britain&#39;s armed forces must prepare for a &quot;generation of conflict,&quot; the head of the Army told a conference, the defence ministry confirmed Monday.
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Britain's security is at risk because of a loss of self-confidence, says a leading defence think tank.
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NATO allies were considering urgent calls to bolster the size of their force in Afghanistan, where Britain's senior commander described fighting as more ferocious than in Iraq.
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Britain's former top Iraq expert at the United Nations said in previously secret testimony that most government officials did not believe Iraq posed a threat in the months leading to the U.S.-led invasion, according to a new report.
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The commander of Britain's Black Watch regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel James Cowan, expressed fears about the security of his troops before they were transferred to take over from US soldiers south of Baghdad.
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The British-led NATO force in Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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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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Britain's new army chief has warned that the country's military forces are stretched to the very limit, as three soldiers died in a grim day for Britons on the frontline in Afghanistan and Iraq.