Proceeding contribution from Madeleine Moon (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 14 February 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
The Select Committee on Defence was able to see first hand how the training of the Afghan national security forces is improving and how the investment is paying dividends. However, Afghanistan has a very small air force—an excellent air force, but a small one—and will never be able to provide its own strategic air cover. What role does the Secretary of State see Britain's RAF playing in providing that air cover, in the way that it did over Iraq for the Kurds? Does he see that as part of our ongoing commitment, and is he happy that we will have the capacity, in pilots and planes, to carry that through?
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- 2010-12
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- Armed forces Deployment Police Recruitment Peacekeeping operations Military alliances Security USA Afghanistan NATO Literacy al Qaeda ISAF
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