From: Ad 

John Beamish wrote:
> We're hearing a lot of this from our government, too.  It's prep work
> for the inevitable casualty lists.
>

We need to be able to swamp the area. It's the doctrine of
"Overwhelming force" which applied up till March 2K3.

Adam


> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:26:18 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>  wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6352089.stm
>>
>> "The governor of Helmand province in Afghanistan says up to 700
>> insurgents have crossed over from Pakistan and are preparing to fight
>> British forces.
>>
>> Haji Asadullah Wafa, who has been in his job just a few weeks, told the
>> BBC foreign fighters were among them.
>>

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