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Originally Posted by Professor Plum

Have I imagined my numerous deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Or did I misunderstand what you were saying?

Defense against the Soviet Union was an everyone, all the time mission. It directly affected every aspect of defense planning and operations. I do not mean to trivialize the Iraq and Afghanistan actions but they were deployments of the RAF not THE mission of the RAF.