| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:A young man in a geriatric ward | |
| Posted by: | Tom Pike | |
| Date/Time: | 04/06/07 21:12:00 |
| It's not obvious that a lack or armour is the prime contributor to British deaths. The US troops in more heavily armoured vehicles have a very high proportion of fatalities from Improvised Explosive Devices. That proportion has been climbing even as their level of armour has increased. It has been British Army policy to patrol in lighter vehicles and on foot to avoid alienating the population and hence feed the insurgency. This is a difficult balance which I admit looks increasingly untenable. But if all we can do is roll around in tanks, and even a Challenger was taken about by an IED a month ago, the insurgents have control of the ground and we might as well go home. That is the political decision that Blair bequeaths to Brown. |