Author : Anonim
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290797173
Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
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Afghanistan Mission Impossible
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The Wars of Afghanistan
Peter Tomsen
Author : Peter Tomsen
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610394123
The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen Pdf
As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the region's conflicts over the last two decades. Now Tomsen draws on a rich trove of never-before-published material to shed new light on the American involvement in the long and continuing Afghan war. This book offers a deeply informed perspective on how Afghanistan's history as a “shatter zone” for foreign invaders and its tribal society have shaped the modern Afghan narrative. It brings to life the appallingly misinformed secret operations by foreign intelligence agencies, including the Soviet NKVD and KGB, the Pakistani ISI, and the CIA. American policy makers, Tomsen argues, still do not understand Afghanistan; nor do they appreciate how the CIA's covert operations and the Pentagon's military strategy have strengthened extremism in the country. At this critical time, he shows how the U.S. and the coalition it leads can assist the region back to peace and stability.
An Ordinary Soldier
Doug Beattie MC
Author : Doug Beattie MC
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847398925
An Ordinary Soldier by Doug Beattie MC Pdf
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.
An Ordinary Soldier
Doug Beattie,Philip Gomm
Author : Doug Beattie,Philip Gomm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1847393993
An Ordinary Soldier by Doug Beattie,Philip Gomm Pdf
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 1st Battalion 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.
Mission Impossible
Paul McGeough
Author : Paul McGeough
Publisher : Quarterly Essay
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060645689
Mission Impossible by Paul McGeough Pdf
A dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite the desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East.
The Spectre of Afghanistan
Amin Saikal,Kirill Nourzhanov
Author : Amin Saikal,Kirill Nourzhanov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317665
The Spectre of Afghanistan by Amin Saikal,Kirill Nourzhanov Pdf
Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given Afghanistan's extensive cross-border ethnic, linguistic, sectarian and cultural ties with its neighbours – whatever transpires in the war-torn country is bound to have regional and global security implications. This study focuses on the current formal and informal defensive policies the states of Central Asia may or may not have in place in the event of the Afghan situation deteriorating further or the Taliban-led insurgency substantially widening their influence. The book also considers the positions and policy responses of three influential actors in the region: Russia, China and the United States. It assesses the convergence of interests between these great powers in stabilising Afghanistan, and their divergence of geopolitical objectives in the region. With President Donald Trump unpredictably upheaving American policy in Afghanistan, an assertive Russia continuing to expand its influence across Central Asia and China seeking to have a wider economic and security role in the region, this book offers a timely assessment of an internationally-important topic.
The EU's Afghan Police Mission
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0108473090
The EU's Afghan Police Mission by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee Pdf
This report finds that the EU's Police Mission in Afghanistan risks failing in an area where the EU should be showing leadership. The Committee found that the Afghan National Police force is in a dire state due to high attrition and illiteracy rates, and corruption. The mission must pay greater attention to the most basic of policing skills, not least reading and writing, if it is to succeed. The EU is undertaking a vital task in Afghanistan, but it must address the reasons why the mission is failing before it is too late. Reasons include: too few staff - the small target of 400 people has never been met, demonstrating lack of EU commitment and meaning that the mission cannot cover many important parts of the country; the EU and NATO are not working together properly; insufficient attention has been paid to the Afghan judiciary where there are problems of capacity and corruption levels, which risk making police reform unproductive and seriously limiting prosecution levels. The Committee is also concerned that the timetable for building up Afghanistan's ability to police itself does not coincide with the departure of foreign combat troops.
The War in Afghanistan
Arthur Gillard
Author : Arthur Gillard
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737763010
The War in Afghanistan by Arthur Gillard Pdf
Editor Arthur Gillard has compiled fascinating, stirring essays and articles that explain how the War in Afghanistan impacts the American way of life. Readers will explore the issues surrounding the Afghan War from 2001 to present. Both conservative and liberal points of view create an even balance, on issues including whether the U.S. should continue fighting, whether the counterinsurgency strategy is effective, and whether the war is helping with the rights of Afghan women. Readers will also evaluate whether the U.S. should accept and learn to work with corruption in Afghanistan. Personal narratives will make your readers feel for the plight of each essayist, including a teenage son who talks about his father's military service.
American State-Building in Afghanistan and Its Regional Consequences
Neamat Nojumi
Author : Neamat Nojumi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442262010
American State-Building in Afghanistan and Its Regional Consequences by Neamat Nojumi Pdf
The book calls for rethinking U.S. policy toward promoting Afghanistan as a regional economic hub in Southwest and Central Asia as it fits within the broader national security interest of the regional states. It argues for defining Afghanistan within the U.S. national security interests in Southwest and Central Asia, including Iran, and offers critical strategic tools for Washington to support political openness and reforms that can balance China and Russia, as well as more effectively manage Iran’s regional behavior. It links the U.S. policy approach in Southwest and Central Asia as the “missing leg” of Washington’s East Asia policy. The book defines the strategic interests of each of Afghanistan’s neighboring states and key regional actors to explain why a rethinking of the U.S. role in Afghanistan can assist the emergence of a new regional order in Southwest and Central Asia, which in turn can embolden a free market economy and a growing political openness superior to authoritarianism and Islamist militancy.
Will I Live Tomorrow?
Sonia Nassery Cole
Author : Sonia Nassery Cole
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781939529145
Will I Live Tomorrow? by Sonia Nassery Cole Pdf
When Sonia Nassery Cole set out to film The Black Tulip in her homeland of Afghanistan, she knew the odds were against her; she was told time and time again that filming inside a war zone would be impossible. What she didn't anticipate was how intent the Taliban and its sympathizers were on halting the film's production—the crew encountered extortion, government corruption, kidnapping attempts, and death threats, even with around-the-clock security. Her cinematographer fled after two days, and many others followed. After 9/11, Cole wrote The Black Tulip, based on a true story of a real Afghan family. The plot was simple: After 2001, when the Taliban was routed, an Afghan family opened The Poet's Corner—a restaurant with an open microphone for all to read poetry, perform music, and tell their stories. But the Taliban didn't approve, and the family's new-found hope proved fleeting as it struggled to maintain the restaurant and its vibrant way of life. Selected as Afghanistan's official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Academy Awards, The Black Tulip is a modern portrait of Afghanistan that captures the plight and resilience of its people. Without financial support from a studio or anyone else, Cole self-financed the film by mortgaging her home and selling her belongings. Then, with everything on the line, she left for Kabul to make the impossible possible and set out to gather the right people who would risk their lives and willingly be part of the production. In Will I Live Tomorrow?, Cole gives an intimate look into what went on behind the scenes of making a controversial film in the heart of a war-ravaged country—the looming terror the Taliban creates among Afghans everywhere and the challenges and fear the cast and crew faced every day. Will I Live Tomorrow? is a memoir about one woman's struggle to make a difference in a violent world.
The Politics of War
Jean-Christophe Boucher,Kim Richard Nossal
Author : Jean-Christophe Boucher,Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836302
The Politics of War by Jean-Christophe Boucher,Kim Richard Nossal Pdf
When Canada committed forces to the military mission in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, little did Canadians foresee that they would be involved in a war-riven country for over a decade. The Politics of War explores how and why Canada’s Afghanistan mission became so politicized. Through analysis of the public record and interviews with officials, Boucher and Nossal show how the Canadian government sought to frame the engagement in Afghanistan as a “mission” rather than what it was – a war. This book analyzes the impact of political elites, Parliament, and public opinion on the conflict and demonstrates how much of Canada’s involvement was shaped by the vagaries of domestic politics.
An Impossible Situation
Del Spier,Barbara Spier
Author : Del Spier,Barbara Spier
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781599324159
An Impossible Situation by Del Spier,Barbara Spier Pdf
The true story of how lives were lost, taxpayer money squandered, and reputations destroyed as part of an ill-conceived effort to remake Afghanistan into something akin to our own image. What started as a project to reconstruct the highway between Kabul and Kandahar evolved into an ambitious effort to provide Afghanistan with new roads, bridges, schools, clinics, power plants, and irrigation projects. These assignments fell to a Texas-based security firm, US Protection & Investigation, LLC (USPI), which in the space of a few years rose to become the most pervasive and effective paramilitary force in Afghanistan. The initiatives required weapons, health and death benefits, ammunition, uniforms, and vehicles, which the underfunded Government of Afghanistan could not supply, but still mandated. Amendment 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1972 prohibited USAID from funding these items. Aware of these Vietnam-era legal restraints, Del Spier of USPI alerted U.S. officials to the implications and was assured repeatedly that a way would be found to solve the problem. This is the unbelievable true story of a normal American couple, Del and Barbara Spier, in unfriendly enemy territory, in the middle of a war. Unknown to Barbara, Del was forced to take matters into his own hands to accomplish U.S. objectives. He was caught in the crossfire of Afghanistan's endemic corruption, criminals, and ethnic rivalries and Washington's shifting military strategies and bureaucratic inertia. USPI security personnel worked across the country, where they encountered ambushes, IEDs (improvised explosive devices), warlords, drug kingpins, criminals and ordinary Afghans coping with the horrors of everyday life. These horrors struck a humanitarian nerve in the Spiers and without any government assistance they provided clothing, medicine, training, fuel, food and shelter to the unfortunate. As American troops are being withdrawn from Afghanistan, one overriding question will occupy the public for years: How could an endeavor that began with the toppling of the Taliban regime in Kabul a decade ago have evolved into the longest war in American history? The Spiers' path ultimately led them into a protracted legal battle. USAID turned on the very company that for years had protected its construction sites in Afghanistan and enlisted the FBI and the Justice Department in a three-year, multi-million dollar investigation vendetta against the Spiers and their company. Only dramatic courtroom decisions handed down in March and July 2010 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. brought the matter to a surprising conclusion. The Spiers' tragedy is a microcosm of America's misadventure in Afghanistan.
The war in Afghanistan: A Legal Analysis
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1884733980
The war in Afghanistan: A Legal Analysis by Anonim Pdf
Provides legal examination of the armed conflict in Iraq during the secondd Gulf War that began in 2003. Discusses legal issues associated with the initial decision to use armed force, the manner in which force was employed, the legal framework and evolution of military activities from invasion to occupation, detention and counterinsurgency operations, as well as policy and legal issues associated with the establishment of the rule of law and return of governance to the people of Iraq.
Readings in European Security
Michael Emerson
Author : Michael Emerson
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789290796794
Readings in European Security by Michael Emerson Pdf
The European Security Forum brings together senior officials and experts from EU and Euro-Atlantic Partnership countries, including the United States and Russia, to discuss security issues of strategic importance to Europe. Now in its sixth year of operation, the Forum is jointly directed by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. The ambition of this fourth annual volume of Readings in European Security is to serve as a prism through which the EU's external relations and security can be assessed, with contributions from its American and Russian partners. The book contains the complete set of working papers presented and discussed from January through December 2006. During this period, international experts tackled highly topical strategic issues ranging from the security of energy supplies in Europe to Ukraine's strategic security to Islamic extremism in Europe to the strategic implications of the failed EU Constitutional Treaty.
The Afghan Intel Crisis
Musa Khan Jalalzai
Author : Musa Khan Jalalzai
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628942729