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RT Andy Tyson (@Tysemon101)Folks, I’ll try and put this into perspective. By the time I deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 the Taliban were on the back foot. We were involved in stand up scraps but our main enemy was IED’s. These claimed more Afghans and their livestock than our forces. Also the indiginous Taliban was almost a non entity. We found ourselves fighting Islamist mercenaries from all over the world, including Britain. But the main protagonists in our AO were Pakistanis. The action where this image ...