Equipment left behind
All the comments above are very valid, and this will not be the first time equipment has been left or will it be the last, but and it is a very big but, this is huge and will leave the British Army in a poor future position with even more money needing to be spent the next time they go on tour.
The US keep 3 types of Vehicles, Bradley, Humer, and Striker for normal combat, this does not include the odd specialist rigs for IED and other jobs. The UK has up to 26 types of vehicles doing the same job as the above 3, this in my view is the problem. Many of the 1200 vehicles costing hundreds of thousands have not been used and have been failures with many just stored, and quite a few specialist vehicles manufacturing companies have really filled their boots
1900 combat vehicles with 9800 personnel in place and that does not count all the support and logistic vehicles, and with the usual 80/20 rule with 20% doing the dirty jobs with the rest in support thats a lot of wheels.
Is it little wonder we are short of what is really needed Helicopters
I would never be against the troops doing their very brave job, but that a awful lot of equipment chucked at this job.