Although they have fought bravely and in the end successfully, it will be a long time before overseas aggressors again view them with the awe exhibited after Operation Desert Storm and the Balkan air war.

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Welbeck, 20, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester United, had an operation one day after former team-mate Darren Bent left for Aston Villa.

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