Summary
In the mid-Seventies, as editor of The Times, I visited Belfast, to be shown the British Army's work in Northern Ireland. I was taken around the back streets of the Falls Road area by a group of what had been the Durham Light Infantry. We were in a Land Rover; some ten-year-old boys shouted insults at us and threw gravel at the vehicle. The soldiers were patient; the gravel bounced off the windscreen.
I cannot be sure that the Land Rover was the same type as the Snatch vehicles that are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan.See the full content of this document
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Our Soldiers Are Being Betrayed by Cheapskates
They certainly look much the same. Even 30 years ago, we seemed to be lightly protected against anything more formidable than boys throwing pebbles. The Snatch vehicles give virtually no protection against roadside bombs.
By the beginning of this year, 23 British soldiers had been killed by hostile ac...See the full content of this document
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