About 6 months after this, I was attached to a brigade staff that moved heaven and hell to rescue 6 members of a special ops team that got in trouble. Different province, but I think you are right: “It’s the Daily Mail being overly dramatic.”
The article says "They used up a quarter of all the British Army’s Afghan ammunition for that entire year."
Somebody must have been supplying them.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight.
88 British/Irish soldiers in a low walled and indefensible outpost battle 500 attacking Taliban for two months suffering 3 KIA and 12 WIA until the Taliban get tired of fighting and provide trucks for the British/Irish and the British/Irish use these trucks to desert their outpost.