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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437942962
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Operation Moshtarak (Afghanistan): Lessons Learned written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Council on Security and Development
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Operation Moshtarak written by International Council on Security and Development and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. Hooker (Jr.)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160937033
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Lessons Encountered written by Richard D. Hooker (Jr.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It then moves on to an analysis of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq from their initiation to the onset of the U.S. Surges. The study then turns to the Surgers themselves as tests of assessment and adaptation. The next part focuses on decisionmaking, implementation, and unity of effort. The volume then turns to the all-important issue of raising and mentoring indigenous security forces, the basis for the U.S. exit strategy in both campaigns. Capping the study is a chapter on legal issues that range from detention to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The final chapter analyzes costs and benefits, disects decisionmaking in both campaigns, and summarizes the lessons encountered. Supporting the volume are three annexes: one on the human and financial costs of the Long War and two detailed timelines for histories of Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S. campaigns in those countries.
Author : Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892064175
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book The Lessons of Afghanistan written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asymmetric wars tend to be highly adaptive, and this war is both regional and global in scope. It is also a struggle fought in a context where it may come to interact with other conflicts such as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian struggle and a possible U.S. effort to drive Saddam Hussein from power. So, while it is easier to draw lessons than to validate them, this study begins that process."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Services United States; Congress; Senate; Committee on Armed
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ISBN 13 : 9780243794713
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned During Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Ongoing Operations in the United States Central Command Region written by Services United States; Congress; Senate; Committee on Armed and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Congress Senat Services
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266744658
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned During Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Ongoing Operations in the United States Central Command Region (Classic Reprint) written by United States Congress Senat Services and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lessons Learned During Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Ongoing Operations in the United States Central Command Region Chairman warner. The American public, indeed the world, are awaiting this testimony this morning, and, consequently, I'm going to put my full statement into the record and make brief opening remarks out of deference to my colleagues, who are anxiously awaiting to hear the testimony and participate in the questions and indeed the public that are following the hearing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : United States Congress Senate Committ
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341645723
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned During Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Ongoing Operations in the United States Central Command Region written by United States Congress Senate Committ and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Daniel R Green
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612518168
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book In the Warlords' Shadow written by Daniel R Green and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, U.S. special operations forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams embedding with villagers to fight the Taliban holistically. By enlisting Afghans in their own defense, organizing the local populace, and addressing their grievances with the Afghan government, SOF was able to defeat the Taliban’s military as well as its political arm. Combining the traditions of U.S. Army Special Forces with the lessons learned in the broader SOF community from years of counterinsurgency work in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new approach fundamentally changed the terms of the conflict with the Taliban. However, little has been written about this initiative outside of the special operations community until now. In this first-hand account of how the Village Stability Operations program functioned, Daniel R. Green provides a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, the site of the Pashtun uprising against the Taliban in 2001 led by Hamid Karzai, future president of Afghanistan. In the Warlords’ Shadow offers a comprehensive overview of how SOF adapted to the unique demands of the local insurgency and is a rare, inside look at how special operations confronted the Taliban by fighting a “better war” and in so doing fundamentally changed the course of the war in Afghanistan.
Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521246795
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Lessons Encountered written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent report provides unusually blunt insight into lessons learned by the American military from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Contents: Chapter 1 - Initial Planning and Execution in Afghanistan and Iraq * Chapter 2 - Strategic Assessment and Adaptation: The Surges in Iraq and Afghanistan * Chapter 3 - National-Level Coordination and Implementation: How System Attributes Trumped Leadership * Chapter 4 - Raising and Mentoring Security Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq * Chapter 5 - 9/11 and After: Legal Issues, Lessons, and Irregular Conflict * Chapter 6 - Reflections on Lessons Encountered This volume represents an early attempt at assessing the Long War, now in its 14th year. Forged in the fires of the 9/11 attacks, the war includes campaigns against al Qaeda, major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and operations in the Horn of Africa, the Republic of the Philippines, and globally, in the air and on the sea. The authors herein treat only the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the largest U.S. efforts. It is intended for future senior officers, their advisors, and other national security decisionmakers. By derivation, it is also a book for students in joint professional military education courses, which will qualify them to work in the field of strategy. While the book tends to focus on strategic decisions and developments of land wars among the people, it acknowledges that the status of the United States as a great power and the strength of its ground forces depend in large measure on the dominance of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in their respective domains. This assessment proceeds from two guiding sets of questions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The core set of questions was suggested by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: What did we gain? What did we lose? What costs did the United States pay for its response to 9/11, particularly from operations in Afghanistan and Iraq? How should the answers to these questions inform senior military leaders' contributions to future national security and national military strategy? The second set of questions proceeds from the first: what are the strategic "lessons learned" (or "lessons encountered," as the British and the authors of this work prefer) of our experience in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, and Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and New Dawn in Iraq. Encountering lessons is relatively easy; understanding and institutionalizing them over time is more difficult, especially in the realm of national strategy. The ultimate value of this volume should be determined by the future senior officers and national security decisionmakers who refine and internalize its strategic lessons. Those leaders must then ensure that the lessons are passed down to succeeding generations and applied under appropriate circumstances. If this book assists future military and civilian decisionmakers, it will have achieved its goal. The book is divided in this manner: chapter one focuses on the early, pre-Surge years in both campaigns. Chapter two continues the chronological thread but focuses on assessment and adaptation in the Surges in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chapter three examines decisionmaking at the national level and implementation. Chapter four discusses security force assistance, the coalition's development of indigenous armies, and police forces. Chapter five analyzes the complex set of legal issues attendant to irregular conflict, including detention and interrogation policy. Chapter six develops the capstone conclusions of the study and isolates the most important lessons. Supporting these chapters are three annexes: one on the human and financial costs of war, and, for reference, two others on the key events in both campaigns.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Briefing on Operation Moshtarak in Helmand Province, Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey A. Dressler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Operation Moshtarak written by Jeffrey A. Dressler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U. S. Military
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ISBN 13 : 9781731560766
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Complete Guide to Operation Anaconda in the Afghanistan War written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four important reports about Operation Anaconda during the Afghanistan War are reproduced: Criticisms Associated With Operation Anaconda - Can Long Distance Leadership Be Effective? * Operation Anaconda: Lessons for Joint Operations * Operation Anaconda: Lessons Learned, or Lessons Observed? * An Air Power PerspectiveOne of the most crucial joint combat operations in Afghanistan was Operation ANACONDA, designed and executed to remove the last remaining organized Taliban resistance. Operation ANACONDA generated lessons involving many aspects of the art of joint warfare.From 2-16 March 2002, a Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF), built around 1,411 U.S. Army soldiers, and Special Operations Forces (SOF) from the United States and six other nations took on the task of clearing the Shahi Kot valley in eastern Afghanistan of al-Qaeda and Taliban forces who had survived earlier battles. It was a complex, non-linear battle that demanded full integration of Joint forces-and, to the frustration of all, revealed some Joint warfighting stress points.For the first time in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, American forces were locked in a prolonged ground battle in difficult terrain. Eight Americans (5 U.S. Army, 2 USAF and 1 U.S. Navy SEAL) died during Operation ANACONDA and 80 were wounded. Seven of those deaths came on 4 March 2002 at the ridgeline at Takur Gar during a helicopter insertion of a Special Forces team and an attempt to rescue them.Operation ANACONDA also turned out to be an acid test of land and air component cooperation in a pitched fight. The al-Qaeda and Taliban forces holed up in prepared defensive positions in the 10,000-foot mountains and rained mortars and small arms fire down on the Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen holding blocking positions below. Over the next two weeks, bombers, fighters, helicopters and AC-130 gunships delivered close air support (CAS) into the postage-stamp size battle area measuring about 8 nautical miles (nm) x 8 nm. Deconfliction and coordination of this "fire support" proved challenging with friendly troops and controllers in a small area. In the air, funneling the strikes in was just as intense, and strike aircraft reported several near misses as one pulled up from an attack run while another rolled onto the target. After initial contact sparked heavy fighting, air controllers attached to ground forces or airborne in OA-10 Thunderbolts called in airpower to provide immediate close air support.Ultimately, Operation ANACONDA was a success. "Operation ANACONDA sought to clear the enemy in that valley area and in those hills," said General Tommy R. Franks, U.S. Army, Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), "and succeeded in doing so where many operations in history had not been able to get that done." However, it was also an object lesson in the complexities of planning and executing rapid air support for ground operations in a hostile, rugged environment. The report that follows seeks to document air and ground operations during the battle in a case-study format. It offers new statistical analysis from a joint database of the immediate close air support delivered during the battle.
Author : Joint Special Operations University Pres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781078365956
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)
Download or read book One Valley at a Time written by Joint Special Operations University Pres and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan was historic. Service personnel of general purpose, special operations, coalition, and irregular forces worked in unison to defeat the insurgency in a country stricken by war. Their unwavering trust, cooperation, close integration, collaborative planning, and nested execution were in many cases, textbook. In recognition of their professional effort, this case study captures many of the lessons learned in their planning and operations. Success in Afghanistan also came from the determination of millions of Afghans who were supported by these gallant sailors, soldiers, Marines, and airmen.
Author : UNITED STATES SERVICES (CONGRESS, SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033543306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (433 download)
Download or read book LESSONS LEARNED DURING OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM IN AFGHANISTAN AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, AND... ONGOING OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL CO. written by UNITED STATES SERVICES (CONGRESS, SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED.) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Defense University
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781329628496
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Lessons Encountered written by National Defense University and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents an early attempt at assessing the Long War, now in its 14th year. Forged in the fires of the 9/11 attacks, the war includes campaigns against al Qaeda, major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and operations in the Horn of Africa, the Republic of the Philippines, and globally, in the air and on the sea. The authors herein treat only the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the largest U.S. efforts. It is intended for future senior officers, their advisors, and other national security decisionmakers. By derivation, it is also a book for students in joint professional military education courses, which will qualify them to work in the field of strategy. While the book tends to focus on strategic decisions and developments of land wars among the people, it acknowledges that the status of the United States as a great power and the strength of its ground forces depend in large measure on the dominance of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in their respective domains.
Author : Paul Westermeyer
Publisher : St. John's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946411648
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2010-2014: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography written by Paul Westermeyer and published by St. John's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 2009, President Barack H. Obama determined that the situation in Afghanistan required a surge of troop reinforcements. For the U.S. Marine Corps, this meant that the Marine involvement in that theater of the Global War on Terrorism would continue to intensify. A Marine expeditionary brigade was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, where the troop surge and increased Marine presence led to the Marines taking control of security operations for Helmand and Nimroz Provinces in 2010. The Corps' insistence on autonomy within its provinces led to the nickname "Marineistan." The Marine Corps' initially sporadic participation in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was covered in an earlier volume of this series, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001-2009: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. This new volume in the series covers Marine operations in Afghanistan from the surge in 2010 to the end of the drawdown in 2014. During the majority of the period covered in this volume, two Marines were the senior American commanders in Afghanistan. General John R. Allen commanded the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan from 18 July 2011 to 10 February 2013. He was succeeded by General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. On 26 August 2014, Dunford was followed by U.S. Army General John F. Campbell. The Marine Corps approached its increased role in Afghanistan with enthusiasm, employing the Corps' traditional expertise in counterinsurgency (COIN) warfare acquired through the Banana Wars and the Vietnam War as well as lessons learned more recently in Iraq during the al-Anbar Awakening. Additionally, the recently created U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) fully participated in U.S. Special Operations Command's Afghanistan missions during this period. In 2010, Marines launched Operation Moshtarak in Helmand Province in an effort to clear the Taliban out of the central part of the province. Combat operations intensified during this period, especially in the Marjah District of Helmand Province, as the Marine Corps pressured the Taliban. At the same time, Marines aided in the intensified training that prepared Afghanistan's military and police forces to take over security of their nation. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Marine units rotated into Afghanistan and continued to conduct raids and patrols throughout the Marineistan provinces, suppressing the poppy harvest and eliminating Taliban caches and sanctuaries. However, in late 2012, the Taliban launched a successful raid on Camp Bastion, an airfield and logistics base northwest of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, destroying six McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier IIs and badly damaging two others from Marine Attack Squadron 211 (VMA-211). Marine aviation personnel fought back as infantry, a role Marines of this squadron last performed on Wake Island during World War II. In the four-hour firefight, all 15 of the attacking Taliban were killed or captured, but Lieutenant Colonel Christopher K. Raible and Sergeant Bradley W. Atwell were killed. Marines continued COIN and training operations throughout 2013 and 2014, turning over responsibility for security operations to Afghani forces district by district. In May 2014, President Obama declared U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan would end in December of that same year. In October 2014, Marines handed Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province over to Afghan forces, and in December, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United States "ended" combat operations in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, this act proved premature. Since 2014, the insurgency in Afghanistan has increased, and the U.S. Army has redeployed major units there. Marines remained in Afghanistan serving in joint operations billets in the training mission. The war in Afghanistan has yet to reach a clean conclusion.
Author : William P. Upshur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457833564
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Recognizing Systems in Afghanistan written by William P. Upshur and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-03 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, operations assessments have consistently failed to meaningfully describe complex conflict environments and progress of counterinsurgency campaigns in those environments. Operations assessments have perfunctorily served up junk arithmetic founded on hundreds of metrics and indicators, many of which are unobtainable and others of which are irrelevant. As such, the operations assessments process has generally been marginalized from planning and commanders' decision cycles. This study outlines a vastly simplified, yet highly descriptive method of assessing counterinsurgency campaigns, which can conceivably be refitted for use in other conflict or post-conflict theaters. Illustrations. This is a print on demand publication.
