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Investment in blood : the real cost of Britain's Afghan War / Frank Ledwidge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ledwidge, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Participation, British.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Casualties--Great Britain.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Economic aspects--Great Britain.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Casualties--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Civilian war casualties--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Civilian war casualties.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this follow-up to his much-praised book Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Frank Ledwidge argues that Britain has paid a heavy cost - both financially and in human terms - for its involvement in the Afghanistan war. Ledwidge calculates the high price paid by British soldiers and their families, taxpayers in the United Kingdom, and, most importantly, Afghan citizens, highlighting the thousands of deaths and injuries, the enormous amount of money spent bolstering a corrupt Afghan government, and the long-term damage done to the British military's international reputation. In this hard-hitting exposé, based on interviews, rigorous on-the-ground research, and official information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Ledwidge demonstrates the folly of Britain's extended participation in an unwinnable war. Arguing that the only true beneficiaries of the conflict are development consultants, international arms dealers, and Afghan drug kingpins, he provides a powerful, eye-opening, and often heartbreaking account of military adventurism gone horribly wrong.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: The Human Cost
- Part II: The Financial Cost
- Part III: And For What?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-19488-9
- OCLC:
- 1024056378
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