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Author : Doug Beattie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1847397905
Doug Beattie returns to Helmand Province for one final tour - and it's the most bloody and brutal conflict yet.
Author : Doug Beattie MC
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798375871479
A gripping, no-holds-barred account of war in the twenty-first century. In 2006 Doug Beattie was awarded the Military Cross for his part in recapturing the southern Afghan town of Garmsir from the Taliban. He was due to retire from the British Army in 2007, when his CO made a desperate plea: stay on for one more tour. Torn between his love for his wife and children, and an overwhelming sense of duty towards his other family, the Royal Irish Regiment, in March 2008 he returned to Afghanistan. The story of what he endured there makes for gripping reading. If 2006 had been hellish, then 2008 was off the scale. For six months Beattie led British and Afghan troops into repeated, exhausting battles with the Taliban. He took part in 50 major contacts and innumerable smaller skirmishes. Here he describes in detail the action-packed reality of combat on the front line. An exceptional soldier who knows the horror of watching men die, Doug Beattie writes of the chaos and ferocity of war with the utmost honesty and humanity. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the armed forces and armed conflict, and anyone who wants to understand the reality of war.Praise for Task Force Helmand: 'A truly vivid account, and surely one of the most enlightening' - Manchester Evening News 'A unique chronicle of Afghanistan ... thoughtful, compassionate, sometimes disturbing' - Daily Telegraph 'Beattie is good at describing the heart-pounding action of close quarter fire fights as well as the dry humour of day-to-day life with soldiers'- Military Illustrated Doug Beattie, MC became a soldier at the age of 16. During the quarter of a century that he was in the British Army, he served in almost every major theatre of operation, including Iraq, where he was regimental sergeant major to Colonel Tim Collins. He was first sent to Afghanistan in 2006. In early 2008 he returned for a second tour before finally retiring. He first met co-writer Philip Gomm in Helmand Province.
Author : Leigh Neville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472806772
Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other NATO contingents within the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, have been the longest continuous combat commitment of the British Army since World War II. Together with Operation 'Telic' in Iraq, which immediately preceded and overlapped with it, this conflict has shaped the British Army for a generation. Enemy threats have diversified and evolved, with a consequent evolution of British doctrine, tactics and equipment. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation.
Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 0224087495
"Helmand province, Afghanistan , is now synonymous with a deepening crisis ... 52 Brigade, stationed in Edinburgh, were told in the autumn of 2006 that they would form the Brigade HQ around which the Helmand Task Force would be organised. As the brigade's tour of duty was drawing to a close in early 2008 their commanding officer ... took the unusual step of inviting photographer Robert Wilson, a commercial photographer, to work as a war artist, recording the life of the troops ... Beside his records of the landscape and daily life behind the perimeter walls, Wilson made portraits of the soldiers, the Afghan troops and children"--Publisher's information.
Author : Thomas Vladimir Brønd,Uzi Ben-Shalom,Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000207507
This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre. Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic issues as cohesion and leadership, communication and unit dynamics, or discipline and motivation. While these issues continue to be important, most studies focus on organic units (up to and including brigades). By contrast, this volume suggests the utility of concepts related to mission formations – as opposed to ‘units’ or ‘components’ – to better capture the (ongoing) processual nature of the amalgamations and combinations that military involvement in conflicts necessitates. The study of these formations by the social sciences – sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political science and organization science – requires the introduction of new analytical tools to the study of militaries in theatre. As such, this volume utilizes new approaches to social life, organizational dynamics and to armed violence to understand the place of the armed forces in contemporary conflicts and the new tasks they are assigned. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, security studies and International Relations in general.
Author : Bernd Horn
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1100218335
Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438734859
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. NATO Military Forces, Strategy, Structure and Operations Handbook
Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804784948
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and explains how NATO at first faltered but then improved its operations to become a critical enabler for the U.S. surge of 2009. However, he also uncovers a serious and enduring problem for NATO in the shape of a disconnect between high liberal hopes for the new Afghanistan and a lack of realism about the military campaign prosecuted to bring it about. He concludes that, while NATO has made it to the point in Afghanistan where the war no longer has the potential to break it, the alliance is, at the same time, losing its own struggle to define itself as a vigorous and relevant entity on the world stage. To move forward, he argues, NATO allies must recover their common purpose as a Western alliance, and he outlines options for change.
Author : Leigh Neville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472806765
Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other NATO contingents within the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, have been the longest continuous combat commitment of the British Army since World War II. Together with Operation 'Telic' in Iraq, which immediately preceded and overlapped with it, this conflict has shaped the British Army for a generation. Enemy threats have diversified and evolved, with a consequent evolution of British doctrine, tactics and equipment. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation.
Author : Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407063263
When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before. This time they were going to hunt them down from the air. With the support of Chinooks, Apaches, Lynx, Sea Kings and Harriers, the Commandos became a deadly mobile unit, able to swoop at a moments notice into the most hostile territory. From huge operations like the gruelling Red Dagger, when 3 Commando Brigade fought in Somme-like mud to successfully clear the area around the capital of Helmand, Lashkar Gar, of encroaching enemy forces, to the daily acts of unsupported, close-quarters 360-degree combat and the breath-taking, rapid helicopter night assaults behind enemy lines - this was kind of battle that brought Commando qualities to the fore. As with the Sunday Times bestselling 3 Commando Brigade, ex-Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour brings unparalleled access to the troops, a soldier's understanding of the conflict and a visceral sense of the combat experience. This is the real war in Afghanistan as told to him by a hand-picked band of young fellow marines as they encounter the daily rigours of life on the ground in the world's most intense war zone.
Author : Doug Beattie,Philip Gomm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1847373771
Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Internal security
ISBN : 9781437985733
Author : Ian Greaves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351372152
Many, if not most, of the recent improvements in trauma care in civilian practice have developed from military experience. The British Defence Medical Services have been recognised as providers of exemplary health care. Although there will is an emphasis on trauma, this book also captures lessons from internal medicine and infectious disease, ethics (for example dealing with detainees – a particularly controversial subject), human factors, mental health issues and rehabilitation.Military Medicine provides the evidence and context for these innovations, and its unique and important account will be of interest to both military and civilian practitioners alike.
Author : Dima Adamsky,Kjell Inge Bjerga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136282751
This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption. The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military Affairs (IT-RMA), this innovation served as an intellectual foundation for the US defence transformation from the 1990s onwards. Since the mid-1990s, professional ideas generated within the American defence milieu have been further disseminated to military communities across the globe, with huge impact on the conduct of warfare. With chapters written by leading scholars in this field, this work sheds light on RMAs in general and the IT-RMA in the US, in particular. The authors analyse how military practice and doctrines were developed on the basis of the IT-RMA ideas, how they were disseminated, and the implications of them in several countries and conflicts around the world. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defence studies, war and technology, and security studies in general.
Author : Theo Farrell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473522404
Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province. So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship. He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'The best book so far on Britain's...war in Afghanistan' International Affairs 'Masterful, irrefutable... Farrell records all these military encounters with the irresistible pace of a novelist' Sunday Times