Low flier
Sheesh, talking of harking back to past glories. Next thing you'll be proposing we send a gun-boat up the Helmand river.
The world is a very different place now, and Afghanistan a whole different ball-game to Malaya in the 50s or Oman in the 70s.
Incidentally, anyone care to name any successful British Army-led hearts & minds operations since the 80s? Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland?