Dismal Failure - Military Anger Over Afghanistan Pull Out As Taliban Advances

Military Anger Over Afghanistan Pull Out As Taliban Advances

Former military commanders and MPs with military service have criticized the UK's troop deployment to help Britons escape Afghanistan. Major General (Retired) Charlie Herbert told Forces News "feels like a bad dream."


Former military commanders and MPs with military service have criticized the UK's troop deployment to help Britons escape Afghanistan, with one describing it as an "admission of failure".

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday night that the UK would deploy 600 troops on a short-term basis to help an estimated 4,000 British citizens and others leaving the country.

It comes as the Taliban increases its grip, taking the major cities of Herat, Lashkar Gah, and Kandahar in the past 24 hours.

Mountains near Kabul (Picture: US Department of Defense).

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600 UK Troops Sent To Afghanistan To Rescue Brits And Interpreters
12th August 2021
Thousands of Afghan civilians have fled their homes, many heading to Kabul to escape the fighting. But even there, they are not safe – there are fears that the Afghan capital could fall to the Taliban within weeks.

Lord Richards, a former chief of defense staff, told BBC's Newsnight: "It is a tacit – explicit, really – admission of failure – of a gross, dismal failure of geostrategy and of statecraft.

"I had hoped that we would hear from the Government an explanation for why we are in this position, and then an explanation for how they are going to avert this disaster.

"And all we have heard tonight is an admission of failure and a desire to pull people out.

"I'm almost ashamed that we are in this position."

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