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Author Spiller, Harry, 1945- author.

Title The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / Harry Spiller
Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

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Contents Introduction -- The arrival -- The ambush -- Afghanistan National Army 2 KIAs -- It was 75 meters away -- Within inches -- AT4 round misses compound -- The IEDs -- Smoke signals -- The Black Hawks find the largest IED factory in Afghanistan -- The last days -- Five years later
Summary The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. This book chronicles their mission in a little known theater of the Afghanistan War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Helmand
Opium trade -- Afghanistan
Drug traffic -- Afghanistan
Opium poppy -- Control -- Afghanistan -- Helmand
Military assistance, American -- Afghanistan -- Helmand
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Drug traffic
Military assistance, American
Military campaigns
Opium poppy -- Control
Opium trade
SUBJECT Helmand (Afghanistan) -- History, Military
Subject Afghanistan
Afghanistan -- Helmand
Genre/Form Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781476628103
1476628106