SDSR Revisited ?

[Capt P U G Wash]

This no ordinary Pongo, he is the deputy ISAF Commander
British troops will hunt Taliban's winter hideouts, says senior officer | UK news | The Guardian

Mind you, I wonder if he realises what gives him these things he quotes: "We have remarkable target-precision that is causing significant attrition to the insurgents'
"Very often we have lacked the reach and the legs and the resources to go after them in those areas. I think we can expect a mixture of conventional and special forces operations to continue to disrupt the insurgents in those areas in the winter months."
If he raised his eyes just once from his parochial view he might start to see the wider contribution that UK provides with assets such as the Tornado. We have been deficient in combat air in theatre for a while now - try getting a senior soldier to ask for more at this stage of the UK defence debate.

For if he thinks he needs such capabilities for the Camapign then his comments can only be timed to coincide with PR11 and deflect attention from other areas of Defence.

If so, we have here a General who is prepared to put soldiers lives at risk in order to achieve "lower" aims.