British troops will be at the forefront of the fighting in Afghanistan for five more years Sir Jock Stirrup the head of the armed forces has said.

Jock Stirrup: British forces will not leave Basra in shame, but with reputations intact. We should salute them

Gen Dannatt and Sir Jock Stirrup call for increase in Afghanistan deployment and resources in comments likely to cause more discomfort for the PM.

Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has backed Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the head of the Armed Forces, amid reported criticism of his handling of the war in Afghanistan.

Former Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Jock Stirrup says resources for troops in Afghanistan suffered because the US was only focused on Iraq.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the outgoing head of the Armed Forces, is to become a lifetime peer.

President Barack Obama is facing warnings that the US risks repeating some of its errors in Iraq as the new administration turns its focus to Afghanistan, where Nato forces are engaged in a conflict which has already lasted longer than the Second World War.

British forces went into Iraq without enough body armour because planning for the war took place "at the last minute", Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup told the inquiry into the conflict.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup is to quit as head of the armed forces in the autumn, before the end of his term in April 2011.

The Head of the Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup says that 2,000 is a myth. He was not making some obscure philosophical observation or reading out an extract from the sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sir Jock was, instead, denying the oft-repeated allegation that Gordon Brown had turned down a military request - his request in fact - for 2,000 extra troops to be se...