We had the Watches. They had the Time A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan
This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army’s four-month t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Renewing the American Narrative
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Training for COIN (counterinsurgency)
- Chapter 3: What We Leave Behind and What We Take to War
- Chapter 4: Going Downrange
- Chapter 5: Going Way Downrange
- Chapter 6: Band of Brothers and Sisters
- Chapter 7: Women On and Off the FOB
- Chapter 8: Sex on the FOB (forward operating base)
- Chapter 9: Under Western Eyes
- Chapter 10: Who tells stories on deployment?
- Chapter 11: The Burning of a Quran
- Chapter 12: Coming Home