Memo reveals commander's fears

The most senior British soldier to die in Afghanistan foreshadowed his own death by warning that a shortage of helicopters was endangering troops.

Less than a month before he was killed by a roadside bomb, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe told his superiors that soldiers would die because they were being forced to take more trips by road. Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via The Guardian (US)

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by Patrick McGuire - Oct. 31, 2009

The article treats perspectives of more helicopters is afir light.

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