Pride and Fall
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-6829-9 (ISBN)
On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered a chain of events that saw British forces drawn into a lengthy military campaign against a fierce insurgency in Afghanistan.
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, NATO invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty that obligated military assistance to the United States. The British government supported the initial US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and subsequently committed troops to Kabul and northern Afghanistan from 2002 onwards. However, in January 2006, following NATO’s expansion southwards, Britain committed a battlegroup from the Parachute Regiment to Helmand Province in what became known as Operation Herrick, with Defence Secretary John Reid stating he ‘would be perfectly happy to leave in three years and without firing one shot’. The reality was very different. From 2006 to 2014, a succession of British task forces rotated through Helmand and fought against an implacable enemy. When they finally withdrew in 2014, British forces had suffered losses of more than 450 killed and 2,000 wounded. The Taliban were not defeated and would grow stronger.
Sergio Miller served in Defence Intelligence in Whitehall throughout the campaign, and Pride and Fall answers the many questions surrounding the conflict. Based on abundant open-source material generated by the war and first-hand testimonies, this is the story of the men and women who served.
Sergio Miller is a former British Army Intelligence Corps and special forces officer. Over the course of Operation Herrick, he served in Defence Intelligence in the MOD and viewed the war from the inside. Sergio is also the author of the two-part history of the Vietnam War, In Good Faith and No Wider War, published by Osprey. He was a regular contributor to the British Army’s house journal British Army Review and today writes for British military blogging site The Wavell Room.
Chapter 1 – The Planes Operation
Chapter 2 – International Rescue
Chapter 3 – A Particularly Difficult Operation
Chapter 4 – Unfix the Force
Chapter 5 – Take the Fight to the Enemy
Chapter 6 – The Prize is the Population
Chapter 7 – Fixed Again
Chapter 8 – Serving in Hell-Land
Chapter 9 – The Commandos Return
Chapter 10 – Crisis Year
Chapter 11 – All Change
Chapter 12 – Doing the Hard Yards (Successfully)
Chapter 13 – The Rush for the Exit Door
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Eight pages of colour plates |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4728-6829-3 / 1472868293 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4728-6829-9 / 9781472868299 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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