"Afghan insurgents 'on brink of defeat'" was the headline in The Daily Telegraph yesterday, meriting not only a front-page squib, but also a more detailed story inside the book. That is probably too bullish a construction on the situation in Afghanistan, even if (or especially as) it is conveyed to us by Thomas Harding, the paper’s defence correspondent, who was in Lashkar Gah ...
Posted on Defence of the Realm
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Tell it to the Marines!
