Embedded in Afghanistan with the Coldstream Guards Channel 4 News' Alex Thomson finds that while NATO has the power and military might, the Taliban insurgency shows little sign of ending the fight.
It was the longest and deepest patrol that the Coldstream Guards have yet undertaken in a seven month tour in the Babaji district. And yet we were only a couple of miles from their forward base - if that.
And we only walked perhaps a mile or two at most, over the three days.
Even so that meant an airlift at dawn involving three Chinook transport helicopters with air cover from Apache assault helicopters. All that, to move that tiny distance.
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