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UK offers to host Afghanistan conference next year
Nov 17th, 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has offered to host an international conference early next year to set a timetable for transferring security responsibilities to Afghan forces from 2010...
Army tells soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to buy off Taliban 'with bags of gold'
Nov 17th, 2009 - Mail Online
British troops fighting in Afghanistan should buy off the Taliban with ‘bags of gold', according to new Army guidelines.
Cash can be ‘a substitute for force'...Brown urges Afghan meeting
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Independent
An international conference paving the way for an exit strategy for British troops in Afghanistan should be held in London in January, Gordon Brown proposed last night. In his annual foreign affairs address at Guildhall...
Leading article: The Army will ultimately benefit from this scrutiny
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Independent
Two-and-a-half years ago, a court martial of seven soldiers accused of causing the death in 2003 of a Basra hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa, came to end with all but one of the accused cleared...
Explosion kills British soldier in Afghanistan
Nov 16th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
A British soldier from 33 Engineer Regiment has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. The serviceman died near Gereshk in Helmand province yesterday afternoon, the Ministry of Defence said...
British Troops videos from YouTube:
- British Troops Repel Taliban AmbushBritish Troops Repel Taliban Ambush. Intense footage of British soldiers battling Taliban insurgents.
- LSD Testing (British Troops)A crew of British military men were each given LSD-25 (Acid) while on the field. Here is what happened:
- British troops having fun in IraqThese guys had some spare time on their hands.
- Think Of Our British Troops...Please Think of the 12700 British troops will this year spend Christmas abroad on active service, facing danger in Iraq and a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, while hundreds more man bases in Cyprus and on the Falklands Islands ...
British Troops from WikiPedia:
The structure of the British Army is complex, due to the different origins of its various constituent parts. It is broadly split into the Regular Army (full-time soldiers and units) and the Territorial Army (part-time soldiers and units).
In terms of its military structure, it has two parallel organisations, one administrative and one operational.
- Divisions administrating all military units, both Regular and TA, within a geographical area (e.g., 5 Div. based in Shrewsbury).
- Brigade in a non fighting capacity (e.g., 43 (Wessex) Brigade based in Bulford).
The major operational command is Headquarters Land Forces (incorporating Land Command and Headquarters Adjutant General).
Corps made up of two or more divisions (now unlikely to be deployed as a purely national formation due to the size of the British Army); e.g., the ARRC.
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