The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province /

Spiller, Harry, 1945-

The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign : accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / Harry Spiller. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9781476628103


Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Helmand.
Opium trade--Afghanistan.
Drug traffic--Afghanistan.
Opium poppy--Control--Afghanistan--Helmand.
Military assistance, American--Afghanistan--Helmand.


Electronic Books.

DS371 / .A344 2017