The British Flight from Basra
BY Herschel Smith
17 years, 4 months ago
In Calamity in Basra and British Rules of Engagement, we pointed out that the British had essentially been militarily defeated in Basra.
Richard Beeston, diplomatic editor of The Times of London recently returned from a visit to Basra, his first since 2003. He says in 2003, British soldiers were on foot patrol, drove through town in unarmored vehicles and fished in the waters of the Shaat al Arab on their days off. He says the changes he saw four years later are enormous.
“Nowadays all troop movement in and out of the city are conducted at night by helicopter because it’s been deemed too dangerous to go on the road and its dangerous to fly choppers during the day,
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