Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has rejected claims UK troops in Afghanistan are ill-equipped, saying more helicopters could not remove risk.
BBC Report - Helicopters 'do not end war risk'
No, they do not
end the risk but they don't half reduce the risk from IEDs and suicide attack.
I'd like to bet that we are witnessing the worst Secretary of State for Defence in a very, very long time. In a similar manner to Brown, he can't blame the guy who was in before him, as he was part of that very (broken) machine. Causby's quotes in Riskman's post simply emphasise how out of touch these idiots are when they publicly slur their own
subject matter expert.
I am growing very tired of listening to the pure **** that comes from his mouth, routinely. (Sorry about the use of the word '****' Mods, but there's no other way to describe it and apperently, it's ok now, some sciencey-blokes said so
Keele University Research)