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German girl. Typical.

The party that is leading the polls is in favour of acquiring the F-35. Elections are in two weeks so I don't think a lot will change.

The reconnaissance platoon has been used for everything but reconnaissance, convoy escort, guarding the PRT etc etc. When they were assigned another one of those ops the platoon CO and a NCO objected, differences of opinion are not that rare and I don't know what caused this one to get out of...

As far as I can tell no orders were refused. There were/are tensions in the platoon over the fact that they are constantly used for protection tasks instead of reconnaissance. The fact that the Dutch armed forces have unions (which are nowhere near the same as your ordinary unions) is...

A total of 177 persons take part in this poll, 86 males and 91 females. 73 of them are between 16-30 years age and 104 are over 30 years of age. Trends are that every month in which a lot of casualties (either wounded or killed) are reported the polls show the support going down, when it's a...

The cost per shell can't be right.  ???

Not just Chora. Operation Spin Gahr was another combat operation and there have been several smaller scale operations in Uruzgan (mainly deh rawod district) as well. There is barely any international media coverage though, unless Dutch KIA are reported.

Strategy Page is not really a page you go to for well researched articles.

Is this a joke? Maybe you need to inform yourself alittle better.

Really sad news. The word is that the Afghan soldiers had uniforms on but they had put civilian clothes over them because of the cold.

According to the Dutch ministry of defence it's likely they were killed by friendly fire. Sad news.  >:( R.I.P.

The Dutch MOD only released a very small picture and the note in it's weekly magazine. You could not see the detail that you see in these pics. No details were released regarding the circumstances of this attack.

The Dutch Marines use it. The Dutch Army has the FN minimi for this role.

Amnesty is accusing all those countries without having any facts. They suspect torture taking place or have heard anything to that extent and suddenly all the NATO nations are complicit in torturing Afghans. It probably works with the media lapping everything up as long as itás negative news for...

Ok I thought you meant something different. A sign like that is useless in Afghanistan though, the vast majority of the people there can't read. But I get the sentiment.

R.I.P. Speedy recovery to the wounded. Wow really nice of you. ::) Dutch troops have been the target of suicide bombings a few times already. And what the hell do you mean with softer targets?

Wether the Dutch mission will be extended or not, the Canadian F-18s could replace the Dutch F-16s currently stationed in the south by August 2008. Especially the maintenance personell of the Dutch air force is overworked and could use a break hehe.

Damn only a day before they we're going back to KAF. Rest easy soldiers

There are already leopard 2's in Afghanistan. cough cough  ;) Those are Leopard 2 "Buffel" ARVs.

Dutch MOD brought out a press release for the sale of 100 surplus Leopard 2, consisting of 80 Leopard 2A4 and 20 leopard 2A6.