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LONDON — Britain’s recently retired top general said in an interview published Tuesday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government had repeatedly rebuffed his military’s calls for more troops.
Officials on Downing Street insisted that Brown had never refused such a request, noting that Britain has 1,200 more troops in Afghanistan now than when Brown took office in 2007.
Sir Richard Dannatt was chief of the general staff when he retired in August — after, according to reports, Brown had intervened to deny him promotion to chief of the defense staff.
