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Chargement... Boots on the Ground: The Fight to Liberate Afghanistan from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, 2001-2002 (édition 2012)par Dick Camp
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book is more of a mixture of partial memoir, quotes from other works, inserts of commendation letters and maps giving the reader an introduction and overview of the U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan and brief background of the region during during 1979 through 2002 when the U.S. Turned its eyes on Iraq. The first one-third of the book is an overview of the events leading up to the Soviet invasion and subsequent U.S. Involvement. Brief yet helps the reader unfamiliar with the regions history get a rudimentary idea of what had transpired and I think some will find helpful. The author's main topic is the remaining two-thirds of the book which cover late 2001 through early 2002. The book is broken down by geographic and political divisions and focuses on the various special units and task forces involved during this period. The short but clear overview of these sections covers the work on the ground of the special units of military and CIA for a period of about half a year. The author does cover in some detail what groups where on the ground, when they arrived and what they accomplished in that time period. This introduction gives many references that the reader could choose to follow up for a more in depth accounting. When it comes US operations in Afghanistan, Camp, like most other authors stop their narrative with Operation ANACONDA in March 2002. Making one think that the U.S. Involvement in this theater of operation took place from September 2001-March 2002, but this is not the case. As I mentioned earlier in this review I think most authors stop at this date as after Operation ANACONDA the U.S.'s focus was Iraq. The book is easy too read yet some may find the inserts distracting from he flow of the narrative. I found they gave more insight as too what the author was writing about and gave a richer background. I found that this book was worth reading and a good starting point; especially if you know nothing of the conflict. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Dick Camp's treatment of the early days of the war in Afghanistan occupies a rather unique niche in books that have emerged about that period of time. Unlike several very popular books on the early action ("Jawbreaker", "First In", "Horse Soldiers", etc.) Camp includes a solid amount of historical context, including the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Taliban. Also, by not attempting to cover any one portion of the conflict in great detail (e.g. the early insertion of CIA operatives, the battle of Tora Bora, etc), he provides the reader with a survey of the combat.It is also interesting to read about the interaction/friction between both the US Defense Dept and the US State Dept as it relates to interactions between the US and Pakistan. The difficulties in the relationship in these current days is the continuation of difficulty that has been sustained over many years. This book is recommended as a bridge to help readers interested in Operation Enduring Freedom understand the context of the early days of the conflict and will help to stitch together other books on OEF. Disclosure: I received a copy as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Though a quick and good introduction to the conflict in Afghanistan. This read more like a term paper than a history book. The author covers a quick summation of history that lead to the Soviet involvement and retreat from the country and its slide from news until September 2001. The last two-thirds of the book quickly covers the work on the ground of the special units of military and CIA for a period of about half a year. The author does cover in some detail what groups where on the ground, when they arrived and what they accomplished in that time period. The book is easy too read and as I started off with; a good introduction. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The book doesn’t quite live up to its subtitle. The first third of the book is a history of Afghanistan from 1979-2001. The history here is fine, but it is essentially just a compilation from a number of other, better secondary sources (e.g., Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars). Like all too many on the works on the US operations in Afghanistan, Camp is happy to stop his narrative with Operation ANACONDA in March 2002. This means the book really only covers from September 2001-March 2002 in detail. I was hoping for much more. It has been a decade, as of this writing, and I hope that future authors begin to expand their coverage of US operations in Afghanistan beyond early 2002. This is well-trod ground at this point, and we are all ready to advance the narrative beyond the first six months of the conflict.The book is a work of popular, rather than academic, history, which may make it more accessible for readers, but that does mean that it relies on almost no primary sources, and there are no citations. There are a number of maps included, some very useful, some less so, as well as a host of call-out boxes and sidebars. I tended to find these call-out boxes more distracting than useful; this information could have been either integrated into the main body of the text or covered in substantive footnotes, had the author cared to use them. I will say that the book is generally engagingly written, though the lengthy and frequent quotations cribbed from other secondary sources and call-out boxes do tend to break up the text a good bit. Some of the included maps are useful, though I must quibble with some of the cartography, which seems to obfuscate as much as it clarifies. I can only recommend this to those who are interested in a reading a single volume of popular history on the first six months of the conflict, with no deeper or broader interests. The level of detail is probably more than those readers would prefer, while being entirely insufficient for those readers who want more detail and broader contextualization. There is no deep analysis here, and no real sense of debates or controversies. Camp is happy to report what his secondary sources have to say about operations in Afghanistan without seriously evaluating them. I must also criticize an author who is only willing to cover the first six months of the war in a book published in 2012. If the first 90 pages on Soviet involvement in Afghanistan had been cut, surely Camp could have used that space to advance his narrative through at least 2004 or so. Ideally, we’d have a good, single-volume history of the US war in Afghanistan through 2008 or so, but that’s not this one. A bit disappointing. Review copyright 2012 J. Andrew Byers aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Boots on the Ground is a narrative account of the American war to free Afghanistan from al Qaeda and the Taliban. Author Dick Camp uses extensive firsthand accounts that bring the text alive. Camp's exciting narrative covers the origins of American combat involvement in the country as well as the post-9/11 campaigns that initially brought victory over al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. In an incisive epilogue, he describes how we let victory in Afghanistan slip away to fight a war in Iraq. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I enjoyed this book, though a lot of the names were difficult to read and a significant amount of military jargon was also used. The bravery of the men who took on these dagerous missions cannot be denied. I give the book 3 1/2 stars ( )