Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Ben Barry (Author)
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As Senior Fellow for Land Warfare for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Ben Barry has written extensively for IISS publications including Survival, its journal, and Strategic Survey, its annual assessment of world affairs. He is one of the authors of the annual Military Balance, an authoritative assessment of global military affairs, and his publications with Military Balance include 'Combat and Capability: Military Trends since 9/11', a concise analysis of the decade of military conflict from 2001 to 2011, published in 2012. Before leaving the British Army in October 2010, Barry wrote A Cold War: Front-line Operations in Bosnia 1995--1996 describing his battalion's operational tour under both UN and NATO flags in the mid-1990s. The book was shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2009 award. His final appointment was leading the British Army's analysis of the lessons of the Iraq campaign, which informs Blood, Metal and Dust.
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- Contributor: Ben Barry
- Imprint: Osprey Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781472831040
- Number of Pages: 560
- Packaged Dimensions: 153x234mm
- Packaged Weight: 910
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Release Date: 2022-02-03
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: As Senior Fellow for Land Warfare for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Ben Barry has written extensively for IISS publications including Survival, its journal, and Strategic Survey, its annual assessment of world affairs. He is one of the authors of the annual Military Balance, an authoritative assessment of global military affairs, and his publications with Military Balance include 'Combat and Capability: Military Trends since 9/11', a concise analysis of the decade of military conflict from 2001 to 2011, published in 2012. Before leaving the British Army in October 2010, Barry wrote A Cold War: Front-line Operations in Bosnia 1995--1996 describing his battalion's operational tour under both UN and NATO flags in the mid-1990s. The book was shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2009 award. His final appointment was leading the British Army's analysis of the lessons of the Iraq campaign, which informs Blood, Metal and Dust.
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