HL Deb 21 October 2004 vol 665 c89WA
Lord Astor of Hever

asked Her Majesty's Government:

After what period of time a military intervention, as envisaged in Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future capabilities (Cm 6269), is deemed, for planning purposes, to have become an "enduring" operation. [HL4162]

Lord Bach

Our planning assumes that an enduring operation is one lasting more than six months.