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This is a superb micro-history of one part of a multiphase war written not from 10,000 feet but from ground level by a combat-trained historian who looks people, conflicts, personalities, and suffering in the eye . . . and spares the reader no vital fact or observation. <b>SENATOR HUGH SEGAL (Conservative, Ontario), former chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, twice chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti Terrorism, and a Senior Fellow at the Queen's University School of Policy Studies</b>

This book is a masterful blend of embedded reporting, military history, and incisive analysis of the challenges of waging counter-insurgency (COIN) warfare in a 21st century coalition. Maloney effortlessly blends history, analysis, cogent observation, and first-person reporting to show just how difficult a time the Canadians had and what they were able to accomplish with the resources at hand. This book also serves as a scene-setter to understand why the U.S. had to send the majority of troops into these two provinces as the focus of the Afghanistan surge of 2010. The sourcing of additional material was good and the list of provided acronyms was crucial to avoid getting bogged down in an excess of jargon throughout the text. This is the final book of Maloney's trilogy on his embeds in Afghanistan and is the capstone to a well-written series of primary accounts of our NATO allies' involvement in what will soon become America's longest war. -- Journal of Military History

This is a superb micro-history of one part of a multiphase war--written not from 10,000 feet but from ground level--by a combat-trained historian who looks people, conflicts, personalities, and suffering in the eye . . . and spares the reader no vital fact or observation. -- SENATOR HUGH SEGAL (Conservative, Ontario), former chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, twice chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti Terrorism, and a Senior Fellow at the Queen's University School of Policy Studies

Dr. Sean Maloney's Fighting for Afghanistan has captured a sense of the emotions that take place in warfare with a tactical ground eye view of the actions of Canadian forces in southern Afghanistan in 2006. An associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, the author has a keen eye for detail as a historian but still provides his personal outlook and range of emotions during a particularly difficult time in the Afghanistan war. Obviously he was granted extraordinary access to both the planning and execution of operations, gaining the perspectives of both senior leaders and soldiers on the ground . Fighting for Afghanistan is well written, well researched, and relevant for military audiences. For those who have served in Afghanistan, it will be particularly interesting. -- Air Force Research Institute

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Sean M. Maloney is Associate Professor in History at Royal Military College of Canada and taught in the War Studies Programme for ten years. He is currently the historical advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff for the war in Afghanistan. He previously served as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, the Canadian Army's primary Cold War NATO commitment, right after the re-unification of Germany and at the start of Canada's long involvement in the Balkans. Dr. Maloney has extensive field experience in that region, particularly in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from 1995 to 2001. His work on the Balkans was interrupted by the 9-11 attacks and from 2001 Dr. Maloney has focused nearly exclusively on the war against the Al Qaeda movement and particularly on the Afghanistan component of that war. He has traveled regularly to Afghanistan since 2003 to observe coalition operations in that country.

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