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  • Conducting Counterinsurgency

    Reconstruction Task Force 4 in Afghanistan

    by Colonel David Connery, David Cran, David Evered ...
    Series series Australian Military History Series
    Conducting Counterinsurgency uses the personal experiences of officers and soldiers from RTF4 - described in their own words - to illustrate the principles of counterinsurgency operations. The book provides a vivid and personal snapshot of the work of these soldiers, the challenges they faced and their interaction with the local people during their tour of duty. This is a first-hand account of ... Read more

    $6.04 USD

  • The Battles Before

    Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership After the Vietnam War

    Edited by David Connery ...
    Series series Australian Military History Series
    Much of Australia’s military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? The Battles Before examines the role of senior leaders in preparing an army for war — fighting bureaucratic battles, mobilising forces for operations, or preparing for a future that is impossible to anticipate. ... Read more

    $6.04 USD

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  • Leadership

    50 Points of Wisdom For Today's Leaders

    by Rick Hillier ...
    General Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his three decades as a soldier. Early in his career he watched as many of his superiors made bad decisions. Later he learned at the school of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in Canada and international task forces in eastern Europe and Afghanistan. Never one to be shy with his opinions, Hillier is as frank and ... Read more

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  • Uncommon Soldier

    Brave, compassionate and tough, the making of our modern Diggers

    by Chris Masters ...
    Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, peacekeeper, street-level diplomat and aid worker.Having been taken into their ranks in a way ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • No Ordinary Men

    Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan

    by Colonel Bernd Horn ...
    The first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada’s elite warriors who operate in the shadows.In 2001, the Canadian government sent elements of its Joint Task Force 2 counterterrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the Americans with Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror. Withdrawn a year later, after a brief hiatus JTF 2 returned to Afghanistan in 2005, beginning a continuous ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soldier First, A

    Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War

    by Rick Hillier ...
    In the summer of 2008, General Rick Hillier retired as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada’s most popular, and most controversial, military leader since the Second World War left a role in which he’d been as frank, unpredictable and resolutely apolitical as any of his predecessors.Born and raised in Newfoundland, Hillier ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Combat Mission Kandahar

    The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan

    by T. Robert Fowler ...
    Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories.What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’ reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2. ... Read more

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  • No Lack of Courage

    Operation Medusa, Afghanistan

    by Colonel Bernd Horn ...
    No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian action in Afghanistan from 1 to 17 September 2006, to dislodge a heavily entrenched Taliban force in the Pashmul district of Afghanistans Kandahar Province. At stake, according to senior Afghan politicians and NATO military commanders, was nothing less than the very existence of the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SAS Insider

    An elite SAS fighter on life in Australia's toughest and most secretive combat unit

    by Clint Palmer, Robert Macklin ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS.As a bush kid in the ... Read more

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  • What the Thunder Said

    Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operation Medusa

    The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban

    by Major General David Fraser, Brian Hanington ...
    From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa."In the summer of 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of NATO's Regional Command South, a territory spanning six ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • 3 Commando: Helmand Assault

    by Ewen Southby-Tailyour ...
    When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before.This time they were going to hunt them down from the air. With the support of Chinooks, Apaches, Lynx, Sea Kings and Harriers, the Commandos became a deadly mobile unit, able to ... Read more

    $17.89 USD