This time, East Africa was generous in setting the stage for the Russians, sending enough arms to Afghanistan to equip thirty thousand people. This is not a small amount, given that the British forces currently stationed in Afghanistan also number only about thirty to forty thousand. The Afghan authorities have already surrendered, so some have been withdrawn, but there are still about thirty thousand left.
This thirty thousand does not include the Indian auxiliary troops, which are the British's own army, even though this army might be oppressed at home, the British are quite generous with their own people.
