The announcement of the 1,000-strong brigade came as military chiefs sought to defend looming cuts to the army by insisting that the new force would be more lethal.
Very good, but if you do not have the support troops to back them up, then your screwed, end of the day I cannot see how you can take and hold any ground without boots on the ground to hold it, Afghanistan proved that with small bases holding little area while the rest of the country was the Wild West.
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