Brigadier Ed Butler, the former commander of UK troops in Helmand, says British troops in Afghanistan do not have enough resources, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Butler disputed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s claim that troops had the equipment and support they needed.

Responding to the latest criticism about a lack of helicopters supporting British troops, Brown said he was satisfied the current offensive Operation Panther’s Claw “has the resources it needs to be successful”.

But Brig Buttler said: “He may be referring to Operation Panther’s Claw but I think the wider campaign in Afghanistan, and this has been the case from the early days, has been insufficiently resourced to undertake a proper counter-insurgency. I was the commander of British forces in 2006 and I made the case very clearly then that we had, only just about, enough resources to do what would be seen as a very steady state task.”

But he said he warned at the time that if it developed into a counter-insurgency operation “then we would require more helicopters, more intelligence and more boots on the ground”, the newspaper says.

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