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...July visit by the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and, within the past two months, they have been able to make their case to a stream of visiting VIPs: Defense Secretary Des Browne, his Minister for the Armed Forces Bob Ainsworth, Britain's army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt and David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party. Despite the soldiers' fears of neglect, however, Britain's political classes and military leaders are, in fact, fully focused on Afghanistan, the country that Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown describes as "the front line against terrorism...
...British public isn't alone in wanting an end to British involvement there. Armed Forces chief Dannatt is lobbying for a withdrawal in public and private, says Dodge: "He's saying Afghanistan is most important and I won't have my army broken over the knee of Iraq." With an army of fewer than 100,000, the U.K. doesn't have the manpower to maintain a significant presence in Iraq and continue ramping up operations in Afghanistan. The government may not yet have figured out exactly how to extricate British troops from Iraq but that calculation is becoming ever more...
...interpretation raised wry smiles in Westminster, where cynical voices speak of the Prime Minister's last dash to secure his legacy by removing some of the stain of Iraq before he leaves office later this year. Defense experts also point to criticisms leveled last October by General Sir Richard Dannatt, then only six weeks into his new job as Chief of the General Staff. Britain should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems. We are in a Muslim country, and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear," said Britain's most senior...
...Lieutenant, and will command a troop of 12 men in four Scimitar armored reconnaissance vehicles, each with a crew of three. The Ministry of Defense said that "the decision to deploy him had been a military one, made by the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, in conjunction with Cornet Wales' commanding officer," adding that "the Royal Household has been consulted throughout...
...RICHARD DANNATT, head of the British army, whose call for a pullout from Iraq "sometime soon" shocked his country's government...