Panthers Claw

We have just pulled out of Iraq with the close-down of Operation TELIC after handing over to the US and as good as this sounds, you need to look at the events happening on the other side of Iran.

Operation Herrick. Afghanistan. The situation here is getting a lot worse. This week just gone, the UK endured a horrific 15 deaths in just 10 days. 8 of these, within 24 hours. Why is this happening though? How come the sudden rise in deaths?

The UK Ministry of Defense has begun Operation Panthers Claw in Afghanistan with the aim to drive the Taleban out of their strongholds in order to weaken them, and in order to gain land which can be utilised in the future. The top brass knew the risks involved, and with these recent deaths of heroes, everyone's fingers are pointing at the government - and rightly so.

Gordon Brown was continuing to tell the military top brass that they cannot send more troops to Afghanistan. Why? Because he is a fucktard and doesn't understand the need for more troops in order to be able to squash those "rag-head" militants and push the more difficult groups of those inhumane scumbags out of strongholds which they have held for years.

It is time for change.

It doesn't take a genius to realise that our heroes out in Afghanistan on Operation Herrick are under-equipped and as a result, putting their lives at such a risk all the time. Some guys are even walking around in the standard 'Greens' colour combat clothing, instead of wearing the necessary desert pattern combat clothing. What the hell is going on?!

There aren't enough helicopters either. The Royal Air Force simply cannot deploy any more helicopters than it has already done so. They cannot send every helicopter out there, as they are required to hold some on standby for when some come back for maintenance, and others are currently being maintained.

The Chinook helicopter, the workhorse of Afghanistan, as a good example, is so vital to preserve life and save lives of those who would travel otherwise on the dirt tracks and desertified land of Afghanistan. Whenever troops travel on the roads, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonates and people are injured or killed.

The vehicles are being changed, but, they still aren't performing. The British Army needs more stronger vehicles which can withstand IEDs, such as the Jackal vehicle, designed to spread the blast away from the centre of the vehicle where the occupants sit.

No-one in the Armed Forces are paid enough either in my opinion, for the job that they do. On a tour, they put their lives on the line for anything over 4 months on a daily basis without being able to guarantee their return. Realistically, all they can do is hope for the best. I think that the minimum Armed Forces wage should be £30,000 - starting with the people on the smallest wage - the British Army soldiers, the cannon fodder.

The Government, namely the Prime Minister and the rest of the stupid Labour Party seem to think that the UK forces are infact well equipped and are perfectly able to continue their operations perfectly well with the equipment already provided out there. But they are obviously incompetent bed-wetters who are hiding from the real truth. They are under-equipped, and the sooner the Govt. realise this, the better!

Now here are two questions which could be difficult to answer. Who are the Taleban? Why do they seem so effective?

The answers are actually infact quite simple. The Taleban are cowards and the reason why we are fighting them is because they are a direct threat to our national security, and this applies to the UK, the USA, and any other ISAF force in the country at present.

They are cowards because they use women and children to shield them from being bombed by our Air Forces. When a Harrier GR7/GR9/GR9A flies over, or any other aircraft, they ensure that there are women and children walking around the compound so that our rules of engagement state that we cannot drop the bomb on the target.

Another example of how they are cowards is the way in which they drop their weapons and hide when an Apache gunship helicopter arrives to help out the troops on the ground. They drop their weapons, and wait for the Apache to be low on fuel before picking up arms and starting again as it leaves the area. That's cowardly. They know our rules of engagement stop us from firing upon unarmed men.

A third and final example of how they are cowards comes from the experience we all know too well. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). These have proven deadly for our ground troops, which is why more helicopters are needed. The rag heads plant horrific IEDs into the road, where they know our troops will travel, then disappear elsewhere.

Why are they effective? They use tactics which they learnt from the last Gulf War. Many of them, as they are elders, fought in this war and lost friends to the enemy at the time. This would have made them press on to become much stronger, and better equipped.

They use their pre-dated yet good tactics learnt in previous years, and couple it with their outstanding knowledge of the area, including where all the irrigation ditches lead to, and use this to fight the British, or whoever they are engaging at the time.

I predict that the Government will only act upon this problem of resources when the Labour Govt is squashed and kicked out, and when the Conservative Govt, led by David Cameron takes over.

I do however, propose a solution. Chris at Potential Difference only knows this too well...

Nuke

And

Forget.