Please answer a question about the following article about Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom):

Dannatt criticised a remnant "Cold War mentality", with military expenditures based on retaining a capability against a direct conventional strategic threat; He said currently only 10% of the MoD's equipment programme budget between 2003 and 2018 was to be invested in the "land environment"at a time when Britain was engaged in land-based wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Where was Britain involved in a land war when some thought that land wars were basically a thing of the past?
Afghanistan and Iraq