It’s thought Britain’s unlikely to send more troops to Afghanistan, despite welcoming Donald Trump’s u-turn over providing military support.
The US president had pledged to withdraw US forces, but now admits that would “leave a vacuum for terrorists to fill.”
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Iain Smailes is the former British Defence Attache in Kabul.
He says one of Mr Trump’s justification for boosting numbers was to “honour the war dead.”