Fighting The Taliban
Fighting The Taliban is the exclusive first-hand account of one of the longest battles fought by British soldiers in Afghanistan. When John Reid dispatched British forces to Helmand province on a “peace keeping” mission he expected them to achieve their goals “without firing a shot”. Dispatches reveals how the war on terror is really being fought on the ground, and assesses the formidable scale of the task facing British troops in Afghanistan. Ignoring Ministry of Defense orders, filmmaker Sean Langan hitches a ride with the Afghan army who, along with British soldiers, are on a mission to retake the strategically critical town of Garmser in Helmand province.
The assault is expected to take 24 hours but it soon runs into difficulty, leading to six days of relentless attacks and counter attacks, captured from start to finish by Langan. The front line was often less than 100 yards from the compound where the 17 British troopers established their forward base and the ferocity of fighting saw the British officers call in a record number of NATO air strikes. (Excerpt from channel4.com)
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This take give it back, take give it back, as been happening in every war. What a disrespect to the soldiers and unnecessary death caused by higher up imbeciles.
Sean did a great doc, to the point, honest and great editing with out the Hollywood drama.
Hopefully one day all news will be short docs made by independents.
Amazing. Modern day war like this , And they are strolling in unarmored cars. Luckily for the air strikes else they may have been overrun. Central command has no idea whats going on ? Instead they look at map in a air conditioned room. Point here and here. Maybe they need to get some brains up there.
Because as far as I seen, They needed alot more troops , Tank support…. That is just ridiculous
They have achieved there objective. However after six days fighting we have to give it back to the Taliban (English soldier).
This is totally hopeless there is no way you can change a country with this approach. It’s like a wet **** in the dessert and being surprised it didn’t make an impact.
It’s sad to see all this.
Another thing that is not surprising is the amount of Afghans that got injured fighting on the same side as the English.
Jesse, you do realise the English are not the only side fighting as “British”?
I HATE people who think it’s only english, in fact, it’s English, Scottish, Irish and Gurkha’s that fight for the UK (And others of course).
The Afghans did not just fight on the same side as the english, but also the ENTIRE UK.
this seemed more like a reality tv show than a documentary.
didn’t learn anything that i didn’t read in the summary at top.
just lots of wizzing bullets.
afghani killing afghani.. and because of what? 9/11? yeh right.
very sad.