Nato struggles to muster extra troops for Afghanistan
Nato generals today struggled to persuade allies to provide an extra 2,000 troops urgently sought by commanders caught unawares by the ferocity of Taliban resistance to the alliance push into southern Afghanistan.
The alliance, created to defend Europe against Soviet attack, has been forced into the first major land battle in its 57-year history as Taliban insurgents defy a drive by 8,000 British-led Nato troops into the southern heartlands of Afghanistan’s Islamist former rulers.
