Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission - Couverture rigide

Windsor, Lee; Charters, David

 
9780470157619: Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point In Canada's Afghan Mission
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0470157615 ISBN 13 : 9780470157619
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

Synopsis

"Our Mission was the people of Kandahar and keeping the Taliban from interfering with rebuilding. When we did use force, we had to be discriminate Killing innocent civilians would be mission failure. I had the A-Team ad could not make it work with lesser men and women." - Lieutenant-Colonel rob Walker, Commanding Officer, 2RCR Battlegroup

"Our job is to create a functional government that earns the respect of its population. The people of Kandahar are not asking for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They want Canada's peace, order, and good government. We're getting there. But it takes time, Thankfully Afghans are more patient than people back home." - Gavin Buchan, Director, Foreign Affairs, Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, 2006-07

"My soliders got to know every inch of Zharey District and its people. It was our back-yard. We knew it better than the Taliban, especially the foreign fighters. People learned to trust us and started staying in their homes while we rant he enemy out of town." - Major David Quick, India Company

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À propos de l'auteur

Lee Windsor, PhD, is an historian and Deputy Director of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. In April 2007 he traveled to Afghanistan to directly observe Task Force 1-07 on active service in Kandahar.

David Charters, PhD, is Professor of Military History and Senior Fellow of the Gregg Centre at the University of New Brunswick. He is an authority on insurgency, counter-insurgency and international terrorism.

Brent Wilson, MA, is the Gregg Centre's Executive Editor and Co-Director of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project. He brings to this book his knowledge of the Canadian Forces' mental health and family support system, and the Atlantic region's military heritage.

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Éditeur
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0470157615
ISBN 13 
9780470157619
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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