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“That put a lot of pressure on us,” Farrar said. “It got us in a very deep hole that we ultimately couldn’t climb out of.”
Who Dares Whines "All I could make out in their language were the words Mr. Bean. They were laughing at me ... making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters...
In return for such wisdom, the sparsely equipped Brits called on the richer U.S. forces for material assistance. Major General Patrick Marriott, who since last September has been commandant of Sandhurst, led British troops alongside U.S. Marines during the 2003 Iraq campaign. "The Americans called us 'the borrowers,'" he says...
But there's something to be said for the American way. In 2008, after thinly spread British forces had effectively lost control of Basra to Shi'ite militias, the Iraqi army turned to the U.S. for support to drive out the insurgents. The British, though nominally heading up the coalition...
It's hardly surprising that some soldiers question their presence in Afghanistan. "When we went to Kosovo, we knew what we were there to do - to drive out the bully boys. I didn't know what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq," says one army sergeant who asked...