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Throughout this campaign in afghanistan, which is a ministerial lack of urgency, lack of understanding of the need to put as much effort as quickly as possible behind decision—making, behind gaining resources and support for the fighting. it's crucial, in many cases, in battle, in a conflict situation. they expect our soldiers to do that yet somehow, very often, ministers themselves don't do the same thing. why do you think that is, colonel? is it's something that's developed more recently or not? i think it is, because certainly in recent generations, we've got very few politicians and even...

And explosive devices from afghanistan who has had a constant presence in the country since 1988, including the years when the taliban last ruled. thanks forjoining us. what's the situation now in terms of the presence there and how safe it is? 0utside presence there and how safe it is? outside of kabul, in many of the areas where we have been working, head act, kandahar, up in the north, the situation, certainly for a two and a half thousand staff is relatively safe and secure —— herat. 0ur relatively safe and secure —— herat. our equipment is secure, vehicles, mine detectors, the bod...

Of the afghan government, but secondly, there will now be accusations that the government took too long to act when it became clear that the taliban was taking over. nick eardley speaking there. that was a round—up of reaction today and that growing pressure on dominic raab. let's talk to the labour mp and shadow foreign office minister stephen kinnock. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. we heard they arejust a forjoining us on bbc news. we heard they are just a selection of some of they are just a selection of some of the questions that have been put to the questions that have been put to...

Whereas in previous generations, i think there were far more, given we had gone through two world wars, far more political leaders with military experience who had greater understanding of the sort of thing. colonel, i'm sure you've been watching things unfold over the weekend. you must have played through a scenario that you would have expected. what should have happened? well, my first point i think would be that we should not... president biden should not have made a decision to unconditionally withdraw. but given that's what he did back in may, i think that the real problem was the speed a...

A ministerial lack of urgency. it was a dire situation, it got even worse but there could have been assistance from the government in kabul to help the interpreters we wanted to move out and other people we wanted to move out. i think one thing that may be misunderstood in some quarters is that in particular if you're dealing with the afghans, and the same goes for many other countries in the region, they won't deal with someone at a lower level than them. it's got to be the equivalent, it's got to be the equivalent level, and that's extremely important for afghans. certainly, even if they wou...