Cameron defends British army cuts

During his visit to British troops in Helmand Province after he paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, Cameron insisted he could “look all the Armed Forces in the eye” because he saw a 20 percent reduction in the manpower of the regular Army as the right thing to do.

British Prime Minister said that his government had had to make “difficult decisions” about funding but he believed that the coalition government’s defence budget made sense.

Cameron is in Afghanistan to hold talks with Afghanistan’s president Hamid Harzai and the prime minister of Pakistan, Raja Ashraf.

British media reported Cameron is to set out further details of plans to establish a British-run officer academy in Afghanistan.

Furthermore, he announced plans will be drawn to withdraw a significant number of troops next year, ahead of the 2014 deadline for full withdrawal.

“What I will commit to is that we will do this in a sensible, ordered, practical way – 9,500 to 9,000 this year”, he said.

Britain has around 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, which makes it the second-largest contributor to US-led foreign forces in the country.

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