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The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / Harry Spiller.
- Title
- The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / Harry Spiller.
- Author
- Spiller, Harry, 1945-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS371.412 .S695 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 163 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. This book chronicles their mission in a little known theater of the Afghanistan War"--
- Subject
- Afghan War (2001-)
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Campaigns > Helmand
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan > Helmand
- Drug traffic
- Drug traffic > Afghanistan
- Helmand (Afghanistan) > History, Military
- Military assistance, American > Helmand
- Military assistance, American
- Military campaigns
- Opium poppy > Control
- Opium poppy > Control > Helmand
- Opium trade
- Opium trade > Afghanistan
- Genre/Form
- Military history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The arrival -- The ambush -- Afghanistan National Army 2 KIAs -- It was 75 meters away -- Within inches -- AT4 round misses compound -- The IEDs -- Smoke signals -- The Black Hawks find the largest IED factory in Afghanistan -- The last days -- Five years later.
- ISBN
- 9781476668642
- 1476668647
- LCCN
- ^^2017033035
- OCLC
- 964292667
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library