Unwinnable - Britains War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Farrell TheoPaperback / softback
Unwinnable - Britains War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Farrell TheoPaperback / softback A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAfghanistan was an unwinnable war. British forces could have successfully withdrawn…
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Unwinnable - Britains War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Farrell TheoPaperback / softback
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAfghanistan was an unwinnable war. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. This definitive account explains why.It could have been a very different story.
Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province.So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship.
He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local
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