Visual Friendlies, Tally Target
Volume II: Surges
Seiten
2026
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-63624-467-9 (ISBN)
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-63624-467-9 (ISBN)
The evolution of air power and joint fires integration during the "surges" in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006–2013.
Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: Surges continues the story of the role of forward air controllers (JTACs) and Close Air Support (CAS), picking up in 2006 and continuing through 2013/. This volume covers the evolution of Joint Fires through the colloquial "second phase" of the War on Terror—the "surges" of Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2010–2011/. The narrative is supported by the individual accounts of US Air Force, Army, Marine close air support specialists, as well as UK, Canadian, Danish and German coalition forward air controllers. Vol. II recounts the evolution of air power during the rising counterinsurgencies, as well as the psychology and mental makeup of these exclusive tribes. Notable accounts include the recovery mission of EXTORTION17, the first withdrawal from Iraq, previously unreported missions against insurgent strongholds, and multiple instances where the situational awareness and decision-making of forward air controllers prevented civilian casualties and fratricide.
The story carries with it a continuation of the strategic lessons learned from America’s longest war: where tactical successes and innovation failed to achieve a strategic outcome amidst ambiguous grand strategy, flawed policy and a failure to understand the new battlefields of the 21st century, as recounted by the men whose air power tribes went into the breach again and again. Volume II concludes as the "War on Terror" nominally ended in 2013, as the final phase of the post-9/11 wars transitioned to the "Train, Advise, and Assist" missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: Surges continues the story of the role of forward air controllers (JTACs) and Close Air Support (CAS), picking up in 2006 and continuing through 2013/. This volume covers the evolution of Joint Fires through the colloquial "second phase" of the War on Terror—the "surges" of Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2010–2011/. The narrative is supported by the individual accounts of US Air Force, Army, Marine close air support specialists, as well as UK, Canadian, Danish and German coalition forward air controllers. Vol. II recounts the evolution of air power during the rising counterinsurgencies, as well as the psychology and mental makeup of these exclusive tribes. Notable accounts include the recovery mission of EXTORTION17, the first withdrawal from Iraq, previously unreported missions against insurgent strongholds, and multiple instances where the situational awareness and decision-making of forward air controllers prevented civilian casualties and fratricide.
The story carries with it a continuation of the strategic lessons learned from America’s longest war: where tactical successes and innovation failed to achieve a strategic outcome amidst ambiguous grand strategy, flawed policy and a failure to understand the new battlefields of the 21st century, as recounted by the men whose air power tribes went into the breach again and again. Volume II concludes as the "War on Terror" nominally ended in 2013, as the final phase of the post-9/11 wars transitioned to the "Train, Advise, and Assist" missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author’s Note and Thanks
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Stability
Chapter 1 The Good War and the Bad War
Chapter 2 Making Standard
Chapter 3 Coalition of War
Chapter 4 Urban Canyons
Chapter 5 Shoulder to Shoulder
Chapter 6 National Caveats
Chapter 7 Rise of the Manhunt
Chapter 8 Innovators
Part II: Necessity
Chapter 9 Desolation Valley
Chapter 10 Breaking the Network
Chapter 11 Strategic Operators
Chapter 12 Joint in all Things
Chapter 13 One War “Ends”
Chapter 14 Casualties
Chapter 15 The Lull
Chapter 16 Few Among “The Few”
Afterword
Glossary
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 25 photographs |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63624-467-X / 163624467X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63624-467-9 / 9781636244679 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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