RUSI JournalVolume 157Issue 2
Ministerial Decision-Making in the Run-Up to the Helmand Deployment
Matt Cavanagh
16 April 2012Long Read
The Helmand deployment in 2006 was characterised by a general strategic failure at ministerial level
The decision-making process leading to the Helmand deployment in 2006 was seriously flawed. Matt Cavanagh, special adviser to the government at the time, revisits the dynamics behind the ministers’ failure to devise and maintain a successful strategy.