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Iraq: impact on our armed forces
Iraq: impact on our armed forces
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2008
By:
Alex Thomson
We ask if the battle for hearts and minds in Iraq has come at the expense of the hearts and minds of British troops and their families.
For the British, the war has inflicted a huge burden on the armed forces - overstretch, resource starvation, and challenges to conventional strategy, equipment and morale.
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A survey given exclusively to Channel 4 News shows that almost half of all army families would like their serving husband or wife to leave the army.
This time tomorrow night we shall be staging a wide ranging debate about how Iraq can be recovered from the carnage and wreckage from the first five years after the US led invasion.
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