Nato 'has failed to inflict significant damage on Taliban'
Written by Admin Monday, 01 November 2010 05:41 Last Updated on Monday, 01 November 2010 05:43
Britain's senior military officer warned on Wednesday that troop levels in Afghanistan won't be reduced for up to five years as America conceded that it has failed to inflict significant damage on the Taliban since sending 34,000 reinforcements to the battle
Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup, who retires as Chief of the Defence staff on Friday, told the BBC that a significant cut in numbers would not come until the end of Prime Minister David Cameron's 2015 deadline for the end of combat operations.
"I suspect that our reduction is going to be fairy rapid and steep towards the end of that period rather than gradually over the next four to five years," he said. "It would be wrong to suggest that from next year you could start to see significant reductions in numbers of British forces; I really do not think that would be sensible."
US officials said the Taliban had been able to "re-establish and regenerate" after coming under attack by the addition Nato troops.
"The insurgency seems to be maintaining its resilience," a defence official told the Washington Post newspaper. "For the senior leadership not much has changed. At most we're seeing lines of support disrupted but its temporary."
"Victory is impossible in Afghanistan. Obama is right to pull the troops out. No matter how difficult it will be," Gorbatchev, for Russian President said. "But what's the alternative – another Vietnam? Sending in half-a-million troops? That wouldn't work."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8090518/Nato-has-failed-to-inflict-significant-damage-on-Taliban.html
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