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Sifting the Ashes - Jack Watling

Sifting the Ashes

Retaining the Hard-Won Lessons of Britain’s Afghan War

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Buch | Softcover
108 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-03336-3 (ISBN)
CHF 73,30 inkl. MwSt
The British military spent 20 years, between 7 October 2001 and 28 August 2021, fighting in Afghanistan. Considering the UK’s achievements against its objectives, defeat seems the most accurate description of the engagement’s outcome.
The British military spent 20 years fighting in Afghanistan. Considering the UK’s achievements against its objectives, defeat seems the most accurate description of the campaign’s outcome. How institutions respond to and learn from failure is a good measure of their effectiveness. But Britain's war in Afganistan also saw considerable tactical and operational learning to solve complex problems. Not only are some of the solutions valuable, but the processes by which they were derived bear study. The question is whether these lessons will be retained. This Whitehall Paper delves into some of the many valuable and hard-won lessons that can be derived from a study of British operations in Afganistan, beginning a conversation as to their relevance for future British miliatry undertakings.

Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at RUSI. Jack works closely with the British military on the development concepts of operations and assessments of the future operating environment and conducts operational analysis of contemporary conflicts. Jack’s PhD examined the evolution of Britain’s policy responses to civil war in the early 20th century. He has worked extensively on Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen, Mali, Rwanda and further afield. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

Introduction I. Leveraging Intelligence Assessment to Inform Strategy II. Civil-Military Cooperation: Lessons Repeated Until Learned III. Sustaining Dispersed Forces IV. Overcoming the IED Threat in Afghanistan V. Afghanistan as the Laboratory for Multi-Domain Integration VI. Kicking the Close Air Support Addiction Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Whitehall Papers
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 229 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-041-03336-2 / 1041033362
ISBN-13 978-1-041-03336-3 / 9781041033363
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