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The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / Harry Spiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spiller, Harry, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Opium trade--Afghanistan.
- Opium trade.
- Drug traffic--Afghanistan.
- Drug traffic.
- Opium poppy--Control--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Opium poppy.
- Military assistance, American--Afghanistan--Helmand.
- Military assistance, American.
- Helmand (Afghanistan)--History, Military.
- Helmand (Afghanistan).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2810-6
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