Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
The Frontier Scouts by Charles Chenevix Trench sadly did not get the attention it merited from our leaders.
Bottom line: The Pashtun tribes are ungovernable.
Even first taught to us as blinking Flight Cadets doing War studies at the Towers in the 60's.
" Never accede to militarily supporting political adventuring in Afghanistan,as the British Army learned to its cost in the last century,that it will never work"
I remember the metaphorical cheer that went up around the U.K. Defence Intelligence community in late '79 when the Soviets went in ,"Now they're for it!"
Little did we appreciate, or even conceive then, that it would be our politicians taking us in next..........