NAM Speaker: Jules Stewart on Afghanistan 1 Aug 2012

[Jonathan]

http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity ... fghan-wars

On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars

Jules Stewart
1 August 2012, 7.00pm

Have we learned nothing? Jules Stewart examines Britain’s past wars in Afghanistan, the losses sustained and their impact on the current conflict. Stewart looks at the potential danger of replaying Britain’s military catastrophes and considers what can be learnt from revisiting earlier Afghan conflicts.
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[Mark]

Thank you for the heads-up, Jonathan! I have also 'tweeted' this thread.

Mark

[Jonathan]

Excellent, Mark! He is the author of The Khyber Rifles: From British Raj to Al Qaeda, which I was talking about in this thread. If anyone goes and I do not yet have a copy perhaps someone would be willing to ask about the Highland connection with the Khyber Rifles. Or why so many sources screwed up the name of the first commandant. .

[The Scorer]

On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars

I've just finished reading this book, and very good it was too.

There's lots of detail about the three wars, and quite a bit of it (especially about the Second and Third Wars) was new to me. I've had to slightly revise my view that we'd fought three wars there and lost them all, but I still believe that we haven't come out of any of them with much credit.

There's a rather odd foreward by General Sir David Richards which focuses more on the current conflict that the subject of the book. However, overall it's a good read, and I would recommend it to anyone.