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Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan Frank Ledwidge
Publisher: Yale University Press

Aug 24, 2011 - Former lecturer at the RAF College, Cranwell and author of Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. But who started that little war? (I shoulda gone for that PhD) At the tender young Page by page, he stripped away my illusions about the British military's adeptness at small wars, and deconstructed some cherished illusions I had about counterinsurgency in general. Feb 20, 2012 - Little did I know that I was ahead of the curve, and that a succession of academics would make that same case into a cottage industry during our most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The highly respected British military historian, Hew Strachan, has edited this small volume, thinner as officialdom prevented six serving officers contributions appearing and makes some pithy comments: An underlying theme in the essays by former generals and senior British staff officers is the almost complete lack of preparedness and failure to provide enough resources, in terms of both money and men, in Iraq. Over 13,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers have been killed in the war in Afghanistan, according to Afghan government data released in early March. Mar 31, 2014 - Nicknamed Darth Vader by his men and Macho Jacko by the British tabloid press, General Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the British army, says the West did not always achieve its objectives, but will not admit failure. Apr 1, 2014 - In the Iraq War, 4,489 died and 32,239 were wounded in action. 2 days ago - The man who openly lied in order to wage a phony war in Iraq that cost the lives of thousands of Americans, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, is now calling Obama's foreign policy “stupid” and “unwise.” Cheney went on to criticize Obama for pulling out of Afghanistan with the peculiar charge that “he hates to use military power.” Is that That's a little like setting your house on fire and then shouting epithets at the firefighters who show up to put it out. And who lost interest in fighting Islamic terrorists in south asia after he missed Bin Laden at Tora Bora?