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We Had the Watches. They Had the Time

A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan

Carol Burke
Livre relié | Anglais | Renewing the American Narrative
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​This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army's four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters, and concludes with her uneasy return home.

She examines the everyday lives of Americans sent to conduct a war of counterinsurgency, including their sexual exploits on base, their superstitions, even the heroic accounts that military contractors recount in their personal stories of past wars, stories that are sometimes a little too good to be true. In turn, she explores the views of ordinary Afghans to this American occupation.


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Nombre de pages :
223
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Anglais
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EAN:
9783031413032
Date de parution :
19-03-24
Format:
Livre relié
Format numérique:
Genaaid
Dimensions :
148 mm x 210 mm
Poids :
439 g

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