Talk:Britain's role in the 2001-present Afghan war

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I haven't got time now to fill it out myself but i thought i had better create the page to replicate the Canadas role page, and as Britains role is more significant i thought it deserved its own page. --Boris Johnson VC 15:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC).

The Dutch MoD does not want to call it a war (at the moment, October 2006, the ISAF-mission). They speak about a security and reconstruction mission. If journalists ask them: is it war, or rebuilding and reconstruction. Rob van Doorn 01:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Would it be more appropriate to change the name to "Britain's role in the 2001-present Afghan conflict"? Hut 8.5 10:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

The British and American press seem to refere to it as a war, although i can't see that it makes that much difference--Boris Johnson VC 19:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap with Operation Herrick

The Operation Herrick article sets out to covers all British military activity in Afghanistan since 2002. My concern is that this article, apart from the 2001 element (Operation Veritas), is a duplication. Unless I've missed something, this page should just be a disambiguation page to Operation Veritas and Operation Herrick. Greenshed 16:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good - there was never much to this article in the first place. Hut 8.5 16:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] but

There is a problem with reducing this article to the names of the military operations. The political question and debate about the wisdom or ethics of the intervention disappear. An article on the role of Britain in Afghanistan would be a good thing - the existing articles could limit themselves to military aspects. Johncmullen1960 18:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)