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Over coming weeks the biggest wave of reinforcements sent by U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive in an area where insurgents control the villages by night and the fields produce most of the world's opium. For now, British "Black Watch" soldiers from 3 Scots regiment are still patrolling in Taliban country, surrounded by an enemy that they know lies in wait. "Since the Russians, we're probably going to be the largest force descending down on these people," Major Al Steele, the regiment's B company commander, told his men before they set out in helicopters at dawn to be dropped into Yakhchal village. "This is not a benign area. You always need to be poised for action," he warned. For three years, a British force battling the Taliban in Helmand has been stretched too thin across the province's brutal deserts and high peaks. Western troops can now secure just 60 percent of the population in the south of Afghanistan, said British Brigadier David Hook, deputy commander of the NATO force in the south. They hope the new U.S. troops will make it possible to expand that to 90 percent by the end of the summer fighting season. U.S. troop numbers will rise from the current level of 45,000 to 68,000 later this year. In between, they expect a "bloody summer" as the huge new U.S. contingent deploys into southern areas firmly under sway of the militants. "Clearly, an influx of Americans will increase the force levels in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan," said Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Cartwright, Commander of 3 Scots. "It will improve the security where we would perhaps admit to not having enough troops on the ground to provide that security." HUMANITARIAN MISSION When the British were first sent to Helmand three years ago, it was billed as a humanitarian mission to protect development projects. 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