The war in Afghanistan has cost every British household more than £2,000, according to a new book written by a civilian adviser to the Government on the country.
The book claims the war, which has lasted more than a decade, has cost Britain at least £37 billion.
By 2020, Frank Ledwidge, author of Investment in Blood, estimates Britain will have spent at least £40 billion on the Afghan campaign – a sum equivalent to hiring 5,000 new police officers or nurses and paying for their entire careers.
Mr Ledwidge, who has also been a civilian adviser to the British government in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, attempts the first full audit of the campaign in his book, which will be published next week by Yale University Press.
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He writes that the region is no more stable now than when troops entered in 2006 and that opium production is once again increasing, fuelling corruption.
Mr Ledwidge told the Guardian: "Once the last British helicopter leaves a deserted and wrecked Camp Bastion, Helmand – to which Britain claimed it would bring 'good governance' – will be a fractious narco-state occasionally fought over by opium barons and their cronies." Full story...
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The book claims the war, which has lasted more than a decade, has cost Britain at least £37 billion.
By 2020, Frank Ledwidge, author of Investment in Blood, estimates Britain will have spent at least £40 billion on the Afghan campaign – a sum equivalent to hiring 5,000 new police officers or nurses and paying for their entire careers.
Mr Ledwidge, who has also been a civilian adviser to the British government in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, attempts the first full audit of the campaign in his book, which will be published next week by Yale University Press.
(...)
He writes that the region is no more stable now than when troops entered in 2006 and that opium production is once again increasing, fuelling corruption.
Mr Ledwidge told the Guardian: "Once the last British helicopter leaves a deserted and wrecked Camp Bastion, Helmand – to which Britain claimed it would bring 'good governance' – will be a fractious narco-state occasionally fought over by opium barons and their cronies." Full story...
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