The best of the week's news and entertainment on BFBS Radio Two with John Adderley. This week - a possible timetable for withdrawals from Iraq emerges ... transport delays in Afghanistan cause frustration for off-duty soldiers ... more mental health support for reservists is unveiled .. a breakthrough for Commonwealth troops seeking UK citizenship ... more farewells for the home service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment ... Des Lynam on the secret to keeping cool ... the unlikely partnership of wine expert Oz Clarke and Top Gear's James May in France .. Ben Elton pulls apart tv talent shows .. and former Army captain James Blunt reveals being a best-selling singer doesn't always beat military life.

You will probably have noticed by now that the Naafi Financial name has been disappearing from military bases in the UK, Germany and Cyprus.   NAAFI has sold its share in the business, which after today’s formal launch in London is now known as Forces Financial.  To find out what this means for customers Glen is joined by Managing Director Al Voice…

Tony Blair still says that anything the guys need in Afghanistan they'll get. But is that still true?

Figures out today from the MOD show that that the number of people serving in the armed forces continues to fall.  With fewer people to the job, and more jobs to do, John Adderley has been looking at why some of the armed forces are choosing to quit, and what’s being done to persuade them to stay

Anyone who has served in Afghanistan recently will be all too aware of how fraught getting there and back can be.  Air Commodore Steve Skinner is head of Air Transport at HQ Strike Command and joins Glen

The government has announced a new mental health support package for demobilised reservists.  Susie Ferguson was at this morning’s announcement at Headley Court rehabilitation centre in Surrey…

We could be fighting the war on terror for the next 30 years.  That’s the bleak warning from leading academics at the Oxford Research Group.  Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University joins Glen...

Do British forces get the Press they deserve?

If George Bush is feeling the political heat, could Tony Blair get burned before he makes his exit?

MPs vote later on a bill which could enshrine into law the existence of a Services Complaints Commissioner.   James Arbuthnot MP is chair of the commons defence select committee joins Glen...

It's the best of the week's news and entertainment on BFBS Radio 2 with John Adderley. This week - a vote at Westminster on an inquiry into the Iraq war ... details of the tax free bonus for operational areas are announced ... MPs head for Cyprus to scrutinise the role of the military ... battling it out in the combined services culinary cook-off ...  a telephone revolution in Gibraltar .... the RAF free wheelers in action at Silverstone ... Judith Chalmers on being paid to go on holiday ... Comedian Tony Hawks ... and queen of the jungle Carol Thatcher.

The National Audit Office has highlighted serious manpower shortages in several areas of the armed forces.  A report from BFBS Reporter John Adderley and then Glen is joined by Conservative party defence spokesman Mark Harper…

Glen talks to Mark Andrews of the National Audit Office about his report, which highlights key shortages of personnel across the armed forces.

Does the Iraq/Afghanistan experience mean an end to military expeditions of this nature?  Would any PM ever again take us to war?