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

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Helmand.
	Opium trade -- Afghanistan.
	Opium trade.
	Afghanistan.
	Drug traffic -- Afghanistan.
	Drug traffic.
	Opium poppy -- Control -- Afghanistan -- Helmand.
	Opium poppy -- Control.
	Afghanistan -- Helmand.
	Military assistance, American -- Afghanistan -- Helmand.
	Helmand (Afghanistan) -- History, Military.
	Opium poppy.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
	Military assistance, American.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
	Military campaigns.
	Afghan War (2001-2021)
Genre/Form	Military history.
Other Form:	Print version: 1476668647 9781476668642 (OCoLC)964292667
ISBN	9781476628103 (electronic book)
	1476628106 (electronic book)
	1476668647
	9781476668642