Since the Afghans more or less invented low intensity warfare how on earth does Gordon Brown get away with saying this - without challenge?
"In response to allegations that the Government was slow to replace the soft-skinned Snatch Land Rover patrol vehicles, which are vulnerable to roadside bombs, Mr Brown said that it was not known for some time in either Iraq or Afghanistan that enemy forces would use guerilla tactics, including home-made bombs, rather than facing allied troops in open battle."
Gordon, this is a lie. And you are a liar.
H/T Man in a Shed for the article
...and just to make my point, Parlez me nTory directs me to this little book: Afghan Guerilla Warfare: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet Afghan War (Paperback)
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