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Losing Small Wars
Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as-at best-disappointing; under British control Basra degenerated into a lawless city riven with internecine violence, while tactical mistakes and strategic incompetence in Helmand Province resulted in heavy civilian and military casualties and a climate of violence and insecurity. In both cases the British were eventually and humiliatingly bailed out by the US army.
In this thoughtful and compellingly readable book, Frank Ledwidge examines the British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking how and why it went so wrong. With the aid of copious research, interviews with senior officers, and his own personal experiences, he looks in detail at the failures of strategic thinking and culture that led to defeat in Britain's latest \"small wars.\" This is an eye-opening analysis of the causes of military failure, and its enormous costs.
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Painting the sand : one man's fight against the Taliban bomb-makers of Helmand
\"Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a grueling six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he defused 119 improvised explosive devices, survived numerous Taliban ambushes and endured a close encounter with the Secretary of State for Defence. The back drop to Painting the Sand will be the Afghan War, the conflict where the cold courage of the bomb disposal operator rose to national prominence. No other field of warfare offers the chance of a single individual to come so close to his enemy and fight out a battle of wits where losing can means death. This is one of the best memoirs that will come out of a ten-year struggle to defeat a hidden, and enduring, enemy.\"--Dust jacket.
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Our war. Goodbye Afghanistan. Part one, The battle for Helmand
Panorama assesses whether the war in Afghanistan can ever be won.The BBC's Afghanistan correspondent, Alastair Leithead, was in Helmand when the British mission started and in this film returns for his third and final summer traveling across the troubled region to assess whether the military strategy is working there, and whether it is worth the cost in British lives.
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Afghanistan. Part two
When the British Army arrived in Helmand in Afghanistan, they were confident that they could keep the peace, defeat the Taliban and rebuild the impoverished province. But misplaced hope and confused aims quickly led to the very real threat of a catastrophic defeat. After 14 years of brutal, bloody and bruising conflict, the British Army finally began to withdraw from Afghanistan in late 2014. Featuring contributions from senior members on both sides - British, American, Afghan and Taliban - and combining substantial analysis and in-depth story telling, this series looks at the nature of conflict in the area, and asks what has been achieved and what legacy is left behind.
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Afghanistan. Part one
When the British Army arrived in Helmand in Afghanistan, they were confident that they could keep the peace, defeat the Taliban and rebuild the impoverished province. But misplaced hope and confused aims quickly led to the very real threat of a catastrophic defeat. After 14 years of brutal, bloody and bruising conflict, the British Army finally began to withdraw from Afghanistan in late 2014. Featuring contributions from senior members on both sides - British, American, Afghan and Taliban - and combining substantial analysis and in-depth story telling, this series looks at the nature of conflict in the area, and asks what has been achieved and what legacy is left behind.
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Our war. Goodbye Afghanistan. Part two, Getting out alive
Panorama assesses whether the war in Afghanistan can ever be won.The BBC's Afghanistan correspondent, Alastair Leithead, was in Helmand when the British mission started and in this film returns for his third and final summer traveling across the troubled region to assess whether the military strategy is working there, and whether it is worth the cost in British lives.
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Our war. Series 2, The lost platoon
The double BAFTA-winning series returns to mark the end of the British involvement in Afghanistan. As the final British troops prepare to leave Helmand with no clear victory in sight, these films tell the story of the bloodiest war Britain has fought since the Second World War from the perspective of the soldiers who found themselves fighting on the front line. The campaign in Afghanistan has been documented like no other modern conflict, filmed on video cameras by young soldiers, recording the war as only they could see it. Combining this remarkable footage with interviews with the soldiers involved, this series tells the whole story of this modern war from their viewpoint.
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Panorama. Mission accomplished? : secrets of Helmand
Reporter Ben Anderson joins Allied troops as they prepare to hand over to Afghan forces next year. But he finds the Afghan army and police forces - who are taking over when the British and Americans leave - poorly trained and lacking the resources needed to fight the Taliban. Worse, he uncovers evidence that the police themselves are committing horrendous crimes under the noses of Allied forces.
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