Gurkhas Prepare For Afghan Deployment

Gurkhas from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles are deploying to Kabul, Afghanistan as part of the UK’s enduring support to the Afghan Government.

Their mission is to protect NATO military and civilian advisers working in government ministries, as well as UK advisers based at the Afghan National Army Officers’ Academy. Read more  Here  

NATO troops arrive in Stanley ahead of scheduled military exercises.

Argentina slams ‘NATO’ Falklands as UK gears up for war games

Saber rattling over the Falkland Islands, the scene of a bloody conflict between Argentina and Britain in 1982, is on the rise as the UK prepares for military drills off the coast of the South American nation.

Reports that the United Kingdom will conduct military exercises on the Falkland Islands, known as Las Malvinas in Argentina, has provoked a harsh response from the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who has called the islands "NATO's military base" in the region.

Eduardo Zuain, Argentina’s deputy foreign minister, summoned the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires to protest the "new show of military force" on what Buenos Aires considers to be "occupied territory."

A spokesman for the Embassy of Argentina in London commented: "The Government of the United Kingdom will conduct military exercises on occupied Argentine territory…including missile launchings from the Malvinas Islands.”

The spokesman called the upcoming British exercise “provocations and hostile acts” on behalf of an “extra-continental nuclear power.” Read more   HERE  

"They just never will get it will they? The Falkland Islands are and always will be British, as long as the Falkland Islanders choose to be `British`. If the UK want to exercise her forces on in and around the Falkland Islands then they have a legitimate right to do so, infact it would be negligent of them not to send a strong message to Argentina. It’s the same as the UK holding exercises of the coast of Dover. I think we should immediately stop giving an enemy two million pounds a year in overseas aid, I don’t see them objecting to that. The money should be taken from them and given to the MOD to spend on defending the Falklands."

Nato troops' selfies go viral

Their time might be best spent rehearsing how to combat Russia's armed forces in eastern Europe, but that didn't stop some troops from posting hundreds of selfies online

Afghan president says the sooner foreign troops leave Afghan villages, the better

Afghanistan's president said Saturday that the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to local forces should leave the country's villages as soon as possible and pull back to their bases.
The U.S. has already said that from mid-2013 on, the United States and its allies would operate from fewer bases and that the withdrawal of military supplies and equipment from Afghanistan would accelerate. But the comments from the Afghan leader suggest he would like to see that process gain some momentum.
"There will be a change in our relations with the world in 2013," President Hamid Karzai said at the opening of a conference on Afghan foreign policy strategy. "The U.S. and NATO forces are going to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but before that — in 2013 — the transition of security is going to be completed and there will be no military activity of foreign forces in Afghanistan." Read more HERE



(RG) Undoubtedly some of these newly trained security forces will have links to the Taliban.

Canadian Special Forces

God Bless our Canadian Brothers in arms

Afghan mission 'could end Nato'

Former secretary general of NATO Lord Carrington has warned that the current mission in Afghanistan could sound the "death knell" for NATO. Well this old dodderer is bright as a button isn’t he, remember how he handled the Falklands War? Anyway I thought there were only two Countries in NATO now the US and Britain, am I wrong? He would make a good contestant for celebrity big brother don’t ya think?Read it here






© Mack (RG)"Every day feels like the day of a funeral"