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Critiquing the War in Afghanistan with Mike Martin

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How Many British Officers Would Have Said Pushto?

I was a political officer for the british army and i spoke pushto, which is the language in helmend. How many british officers would have spoken push to fluently? And as a result, you were in hell mand for longer than the usual rotation. So i spent two yearsfour times a normal ye, not all in one block, but two years spread over four. You might do three months, go home for two weeks, nd then do two and a half months. In a war like afghanistan, where local information and context is the most important thing, that's the most important resource that you have in that type of conflict.

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