Brits are "Stretched Tight"?

Reserving the terms "broken" and stretched thin for its description of the US Army, Left-wing Reuters has created a new one for the British Army:

Britain's army is under pressure in Iraq and ramping up operations in Afghanistan this year, but if the situation on the ground does not improve fast Washington may soon find that its closest ally is stretched too tight.

And its own, smaller death count:

Word of the 100th British death in Iraq arrived on Tuesday just days after the announcement of an ambitious new mission to southern Afghanistan that will see Britain's forces there increase from just 1,000 now to a peak of 5,700.

And adds some fuzzy math:

"You've got to multiply those numbers by three to get the effect on the army," said Charles Heyman, editor of the annual handbook Armed Forces of the UK. "You add the two (missions) together and you've got almost half the trained strength of the British army committed."

Whatever! God save the Brits.