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100	1		_aFarrell, Theo, _d1967- _eauthor. _9110493
245	1	0	_aUnwinnable : _bBritain's war in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 / _cTheo Farrell.
264		1	_aLondon : _bThe Bodley Head, _c2017.
300			_axix, 555 pages : _bmaps
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aIt could have been a very different story. British and US forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda and stop it from launching further terrorist attacks against the West. Instead, British troops became part of a larger international effort to stabilise the country. Yet over the following thirteen years the British military paid a heavy price for their presence in Helmand province; and when Western troops departed from Afghanistan in 2014, they had failed to stop a Taliban resurgence. In this study, Theo Farrell explains the origins and causes of the war, providing fascinating insight into the British government's reaction to 9/11 and the steps that led the British Army to Helmand. He details the specific campaigns and missions over the subsequent years, revealing how the military's efforts to create a strategy for success were continually undermined by political realities in Kabul and back home. And he demonstrates conclusively that the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict in the country, and to tackle Afghan government corruption, meant that the war was unwinnable. The author draws on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews with Western commanders, senior figures in the Taliban, Afghan civilians and British politicians.
650		0	_aAfghan War, 2001-2021 _xParticipation, British _954239
650		0	_aAfghan War, 2001-2021 _xCauses _960771
650		0	_aAfghan War, 2001-2021 _xCampaigns _960772
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