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What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar
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Armed ForcesCentral Asian HistoryOther Wars
Publisher Price: $34.99
ISBN13: 9781554884087
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics soldiers worked in quiet desperation to keep the battle group moving. Only now is it appreciated how precarious the logistics operations of Task Force Orion in Kandahar really were.
What the Thunder Said is an honest, raw recollection of incidents and impressions of Canadian warfighting from a logistics perspective. It offers solid insight into the history of military logistics in Canada and explores in some detail the dramatic erosion of a once-proud corner of the army from the perspective of a battalion commander.
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