No easy task : fighting in Afghanistan / edited by Bernd Horn and Emily Spencer.
"Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of foreign invaders, from marauding hordes and imperial armies to global superpowers, while demonstrating a fierce independence and strong resistance to outside occupiers. Those...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Dundurn,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 23 cm Also issued in electronic formats. |
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Contents:
- Adjust your sights: leading issues likely to arise in any counter-insurgency campaign / Michael A. Hennessy
- The quagmire of great powers: dealing with the Afghan way of war / Major Tony Balasevicius
- Public opinion matters: the struggle for hearts and minds / Emily Spencer
- Coalition counter-insurgency warfare in Afghanistan / Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Hope
- Campaigning in Afghanistan: a uniquely Canadian approach / Howard Coombs and Lt.-General (retired) Michel Gauthier
- Sustaining those who dare: logistic observations from contemporary Afghanistan / Lt.-Colonel John Conrad
- More than meets the eye: the invisible hand of SOF in Afghanistan / Colonel Bernd Horn
- Lesson learned: operation Medusa and the Taliban epiphany / Colonel Bernd Horn
- Opportunity lost: the canadian involvement in the development of the Afghan National Police / Major Alex D. Haynes
- Counter-insurgency versus 'COIN' in Bazaar-e-Panjwayi and Panjwayi District, 2008-2010: an illustrative study of a Canadian problem / Sean M. Maloney.