Investment in blood the real cost of Britain's Afghan War
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 Brit...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The human cost.
- Helmand and the 'Angrez'
- Military suffering
- Killing the wrong people.
- Part 2: The financial cost. Military costs
- Financial element of death and injury
- Developing Afghanistan.
- Part 3: And for what?
- And for what? - Afghanistan
- And for what? - security.
- Conclusion.