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Helmand Mission
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Author : Richard Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2010-03-10
Helmand Mission written by Richard Doherty and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-10 with History categories.
After celebrating St. Patricks Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistans Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training the nascent Afghan National Army (ANA) and many of its engagements were alongside Afghan soldiers. Well trained and with an operational maturity gained from deployments in every year but one since 1998, they were considered the unit in 16 Air Assault Brigade best suited to the critical task of mentoring the ANA. One company deployed with 2 PARA Battlegroup in the Sangin valley. Its soldiers saw intense action against the Taliban, especially through the latters use of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices). Another company was given the task of ensuring the safe passage of an additional generator for the Kajaki dam and was involved in heavy fighting while so doing. TA soldiers from 2 R Irish formed Imjin Company which provided security but also deployed on wider tasks. Professionalism, high levels of trust and the unique humor of Irish soldiers ensured that they had a successful tour and accomplished their missions. This is the stirring story of a regimental family at war and of those who sustained them, including their remarkable chaplain, Padre Albert Jackson, and the rear party which supported the families, especially those whose fathers or sons suffered injury or death. Above all, it is the story of a highly professional unit demonstrating its skills to the world and helping make Afghanistan a better place for its people.
Helmand Province
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Author : Amy Johnson
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-07-06
Helmand Province written by Amy Johnson and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-06 with Fiction categories.
Alexander is on a singular mission to Afghanistan to find Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice. Elsa, his support network, is struck by the uninhabited wilderness of Afghanistan and the dramatic, even transcendental, information gained by Alex in a very brief space of time. Brooding over this complex problem meant that in the drifting darkness, a reassurance of a safety line had arrived like a bolt from the blue. Helmand Province is inspired by research into the Afghanistan conflict and the capture of Osama Bin Laden. This book is well researched from 1993 to 2012, which formed the time frame of the Afghanistan wars. These wars encompassed the civil war and the use of the Taliban in the 1990s to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and latterly the ongoing war on terrorism. The completed works follow on a central theme of the rise and fall of Osama Bin Laden from Liberia in Africa, where he was trained to his journey after 9/11, hiding in the caves of Afghanistan as a fugitive from the American military. Many journalists and active agents died in suicide bombings and attacks while traveling as part of the process as eradication teams in wars in Jalabad, Helmand province, and Benghazi in the region. The book captures some aspects of this time in a fictionalized form. The war it has been shown has changed the lives of many families born in the country itself and of the soldiers sent to fight there.
Danger Close
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Author : Stuart Tootal
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-07-27
Danger Close written by Stuart Tootal and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving conflict, Danger Close captures the essence of combat, the risks involved and the aftermath. 3 PARA was the first unit into Helmand in 2006. Sent on a peace mission, it became engaged in a level of combat that has not been experienced by the British Army since the end of the Korean War. Undermanned and suffering from equipment shortages, 3 PARA fought doggedly to win the break in battle. Numerous gallantry decorations were awarded, but they were not without cost. On returning from Afghanistan, Tootal fought to get proper treatment for his wounded and feeling frustrated with the Government's treatment of its soldiers, he resigned from the Army. This is a dramatic, and often moving, insight into the leadership of soldiers and the sharp end of war.
The Hill
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Author : Aaron Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-05
The Hill written by Aaron Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with categories.
Following the author's odyssey from civilian to infantry Marine and back again, The Hill is a definitive account of Marine Corps culture, the uncertainty of combat in Afghanistan, and the experience of young men at war.
Woes Of The British In Helmand Province Why Did The British Counterinsurgency Campaign Fail In Afghanistan
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Author : Divine S. K. Agbeti
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-09-16
Woes Of The British In Helmand Province Why Did The British Counterinsurgency Campaign Fail In Afghanistan written by Divine S. K. Agbeti and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Political Science categories.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - War and Peace, Military, grade: 78, University of Portsmouth (School of Social Historical and Literary Studies), course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: At the heart of British counterinsurgency strategy is the “hearts and minds” (HAM) campaign which seeks to create space to advance political solutions leading to peace and stability. However, British strategy, embedded in the Joint UK Plan for Afghanistan, failed to win “hearts and minds” in Afghanistan and can be seen to have failed. This article defines failure as the inability to set the conditions for “fostering the political process, establishing security, and stimulating economic development”. It seeks to analyse what went wrong: examining strategy, application of COIN principles, context and resources. The paper contends that the principles outlined by Robert Thompson (1966) are a prerequisite to the execution of a successful COIN. The paper asks: did COIN fail through a departure from Thompson’s principles, or under-resourcing, or the political context in Afghanistan, or the impact of US and NATO roles, or all of these factors. After a thorough investigation the findings are clear: Although the Joint UK Plan for Afghanistan adopted Thompson’s principles, the study has revealed complete departure from those classical principles, causing challenges for the British COIN. The study has also demonstrated that the British failed to win HAM in Helmand because they could not provide security to advance political solutions leading to peace and stability due to tactical mistakes, limited resources, incompetence of Karzai’s government and ethnic undercurrents, the US counterterrorism mission, and the relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan. The British were demonstrably under-prepared, under-resourced, and lacked a clear and achievable strategy to deliver COIN success in Afghanistan. These factors indicate a departure from Thompson’s principles, leading to a complete failure in Afghanistan.
An Ordinary Soldier
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Author : Doug Beattie MC
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-05-21
An Ordinary Soldier written by Doug Beattie MC and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1stBattalion Royal Irish Regiment was charged with the mission to help retake Garmsir from the Taliban. His commanders said it would take two days; it actually took two weeks of exhausting, bloody conflict in which at times he would be one of only a small unit up against a ferocious enemy in impossible conditions.For his repeated bravery Doug Beattie was decorated with the Military Cross. AN ORDINARY SOLDIER offers an extraordinary insight into the mission in Afghanistan and, crucially, the relationship between British troops and the Afghans they serve alongside. Above all, it's Beattie's personal story of being what he modestly calls 'an ordinary soldier' - someone who balances being a loving father and husband with that of fighting in the world's most hostile place. It demands to be read.
The Helmand Baluch
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Author : Ghulam Rahman Amiri
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-11-01
The Helmand Baluch written by Ghulam Rahman Amiri and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Social Science categories.
In the 1970s, in his capacity as government representative from the Afghan Institute of Archaeology, Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Afghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan. The results of his work were published in Farsi as a descriptive ethnographic monograph. The Helmand Baluch is the first English translation of Amiri’s extraordinary encounters. This rich ethnography describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan. It is an area that has received little study since the early 20th Century, yet is a region with a remarkable history in one of the most volatile territories in the world.
Honourable Warriors
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Author : Richard Streatfeild
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Honourable Warriors written by Richard Streatfeild and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with History categories.
In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand. They were engaged in over 800 fire-fights. They were the target of more than 200 improvised explosive devices. Ten men in his company were killed, 50 were wounded. This is their story and it is the story, from the front line, of Western intervention in Afghanistan. His graphic personal account gives an inside view of the physical, psychological and political battle to come to terms with severe casualties and the stress of battle while seeking the support of the local population. It is also an account of strategy being turned into action - of the essential interplay of the personal and professional in the most testing of circumstances. He describes the day-to-day operations, and he provides a fascinating record of the Taliban's guerrilla tactics and the British response to them. His narrative gives a direct insight into the experiences of soldiers who had to face down their fear throughout a prolonged tour of duty on the Afghan battlefield.His narrative is essential reading for anyone who cares to understand the nature of the war in Afghanistan and how the odds are stacked against the army's success. For the British intervention in Helmand is a microcosm of the Nato-led mission launched against the Taliban and al Qaeda.As seen in The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, Sussex Express and The Argus, Featured on BBC Radio 4 ' The Today' programme and on BBC South East Television
Death In Helmand
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Author : Alison Belsham
language : en
Publisher: Canelo
Release Date : 2022-09-08
Death In Helmand written by Alison Belsham and has been published by Canelo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with Fiction categories.
‘Belsham and Higgins have painted a fascinating world in such vivid detail that you can feel the heat of the desert off the page! I thoroughly enjoyed it’ James Oswald, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inspector McLean series One man murdered, another missing. A race against time... Helmand, 2004: Afghanistan’s most lawless province, where nearly 90 per cent of the world’s opium is grown. Pink and lilac poppies flutter innocently in the breeze in fields that stretch for miles and miles along the Helmand River south of the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Gangsters and warlords battle for supremacy in the lucrative trade, territories well-known, and fiercely contested. Well Diggers, an Anglo-Dutch NGO helping the farming community, comes under attack. One man is dead and another man is missing – suspected kidnapped, so head of security Ginger Jameson calls in his old friend Alasdair ‘Mac’ MacKenzie to help. But when the expected ransom demand fails to materialise, rumours blossom, creating a web of deceit and a multitude of false leads. Embarking on a rescue mission into the no-go reaches of southern Helmand might look like a major scoop to Mac’s girlfriend, investigative reporter Baz Khan, but it puts the whole team in danger. And if they don’t find him soon, they won’t find him at all... From Helmand’s shimmering poppy fields to the blistering Desert of Death and the opium bazaars of Bahram Char, where nothing is as cheap as a man’s life, this is the gripping sequel to Death in Kabul. Praise for Death in Helmand ‘Belsham and Higgins have painted a fascinating world in such vivid detail that you can feel the heat of the desert off the page! The central characters are a wonderful mix who bring extra depth to the reality of just trying to exist in a country as broken as Afghanistan. The chapters rattle along at a great pace, pages pretty much turning themselves as you rush, heart in mouth, to find out what happens next’ James Oswald, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inspector McLean series ‘A book so atmospheric you can feel the grit between your teeth and the sand in your shoes, Death in Helmand is a thrill-ride race-to-the-finish that had me gripped until the end. A superb read!’ Louisa Scarr, author of Blink of an Eye ‘Mac and Baz are back in this awesome, edge-of-the-seat thriller. Death in Helmand is an escape to an opium-fuelled world which makes Mad Max look sedate. Afghan warlords, kidnap, murder, daring escapes with an edge of humanity that give us a real glimpse into the world behind the headlines. A brilliant white-knuckle ride’ Suzy Aspley, author of Crow Moon ‘Noisy, dusty, chaotic and tense - Helmand is brilliantly drawn in this powerful novel. I could not put it down’ Marion Todd, author of What They Knew ‘Belsham and Higgins give us another all-guns-blazing, white-knuckle ride through lawless Afghanistan, with a cast of characters you can’t help but root for’ Heleen Kist, author of What I Hid From You ‘As gritty and realistic as a thriller gets. You’re going to feel the zip of every bullet and every bump in the road. What an amazingly immersive read!’ Rob Parker, author of Far from the Tree Praise for Death in Kabul ‘A tense, taut and totally authentic thriller that grips from the first page and doesn’t let go. Death in Kabul immerses you in 2003 Kabul, riven by corruption where danger lurks in every alley’ D. V. Bishop, author of City of Vengeance ‘A vividly portrayed murder mystery in a fresh and fascinating setting. With wonderful characters and a great plot, I hope this is the first of many from this duo’ Susi Holliday, author of The Last Resort
Counterinsurgency Wars And The Anglo American Alliance
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Author : Andrew Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-02
Counterinsurgency Wars And The Anglo American Alliance written by Andrew Mumford and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with History categories.
Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a “special relationship” between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era. Though they are allies to be sure, national self-interest and domestic politics have often undercut their relationship. This is the first book to combine a history of US-UK interaction during major counterinsurgency campaigns since 1945, from Palestine to Iraq and Afghanistan, with a critical examination of the so called special relationship that has been tested during these difficult, protracted, and costly conflicts. Mumford’s assessment of each nation’s internal political discussions and diplomatic exchanges reveals that in actuality there is only a thin layer of specialness at work in the wars that shaped the postcolonial balance of power, the fight against Communism in the Cold War, and the twenty-first-century “war on terror.” This book is especially timely given that the US-UK relationship is once again under scrutiny because of the Trump administration’s “America First” rhetoric and Britain's changing international relations as a result of Brexit. Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance will interest scholars and students of history, international relations, and security studies as well as policy practitioners in the field.