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BBC Two - Afghanistan: The Lion's Last Roar?, Episode 2

Part two examines Britain's attempts to extricate itself from the conflict in Afghanistan.

Two-part series on the story of Britain's war in Afghanistan. Part two examines how the public lost faith in the war and British attempts to extricate itself from the conflict.

In 2006, five years in to the war against the Taliban, the British army found that it was facing military disaster in Afghanistan. In Helmand province, its troops were fighting an implacable and well-armed enemy that seemed impossible to defeat. As the death toll mounted, the British public began to lose faith in the campaign and question whether the sacrifice was necessary. The episode tells the story of the British attempts to extricate itself from the conflict, and asks whether the country will ever have the desire to put its troops into such battles again.

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Two-part series telling the story of Britain's war in Afghanistan.

This two-part series tells the story of the conflict in Afghanistan and asks what has been achieved and whether the British have the will to fight in distant lands again.

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