British troops are scheduled to have withdrawn from their Afghan tour by January 2015, Houghton told The Times.
Agence France-Presse reports the U.K.âs top military commander highlighted Africa, the Gulf, and East and Southeast Asia as potential locations for conflict-prevention training missions.
âTraining missions in other countries in regions which help build indigenous capacity for security within those regions and help avoid conflict⦠helps to an extent in the redistribution of wealth so that those vulnerable states do not become destabilized,â he said in the interview.