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Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand

Helmand: anatomy of a disaster?

Published on Afpak Channel. By Stephen Grey, June 15, 2010 U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Mills takes over command […]

Afghanistan, British Army

An Army Officer writes …

Reaction is coming in to some of the points raised in the joint piece I wrote with Andrew Mackay (now […]

Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand

A ten point agenda on Afghanistan

Exclusive: As David Cameron gathers experts and ministers for “secret” Afghan talks, former Helmand commander Andrew Mackay and Operation Snakebite […]

Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand

Just Cause: Unjust Means

Straying from reporting to comment, I gave a talk recently at King’s College, London, on the question: Is the Afghanistan […]

British Army

Mystery over ‘closure’ of defence ministry’s ‘brains trust’

IT most famously predicted the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, and had a team of multi-lingual analysts dedicated to […]

Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand, Taliban

Bombed, blasted and shot yet still the Taliban come

From The Sunday Times November 15, 2009 Stephen Grey in Musa Qala TWO years ago Corporal Alex Temple fought like […]

Afghanistan, British Army

Cracking on in Helmand

(Published in Prospect Magazine 27th August 2009 — Issue 162) Stephen Grey Britain’s bloody campaign in Afghanistan has been marred […]

Afghanistan, British Army

Aiding the Enemy?

This is the official response to my piece on the British Army Review. British Army Review MOD Director of Media […]

Afghanistan, Basra, British Army, Iraq

MoD blocked warning that Britain faces Afghan defeat

From The Sunday Times September 6, 2009 By Stephen Grey THE Ministry of Defence has suppressed a report which warned […]

Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand

The Fog of War

published in the New Statesman, 13 August 2009. Stephen Grey IN 2001, British troops marched into Afghanistan on a mission […]

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In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, many believe that the spy is dead. What use are double agents and dead letter boxes compared to the all-seeing digital eye? They couldn't be more wrong ... a revealing story of how spycraft and the 'human factor' survive, against the odds.

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