Book description
"Our Mission was the people of Kandahar and keeping the Taliban
from interfering with rebuilding. When we did use force, we had to be
discriminate Killing innocent civilians would be mission failure. I had
the A-Team ad could not make it work with lesser men and women." -
Lieutenant-Colonel rob Walker, Commanding Officer, 2RCR Battlegroup
"Our job is to create a functional government that earns the
respect of its population. The people of Kandahar are not asking for
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They want Canada's peace,
order, and good government. We're getting there. But it takes time,
Thankfully Afghans are more patient than people back home." -
Gavin Buchan, Director, Foreign Affairs, Kandahar Provincial
Reconstruction Team, 2006-07
"My soliders got to know every inch of Zharey District and its
people. It was our back-yard. We knew it better than the Taliban,
especially the foreign fighters. People learned to trust us and
started staying in their homes while we rant he enemy out of
town." - Major David Quick, India Company
Lee Windsor, PhD, is an historian and Deputy Director of
the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. In April 2007 he
traveled to Afghanistan to directly observe Task Force 1-07 on active
service in Kandahar.
David Charters, PhD, is Professor of Military History and Senior
Fellow of the Gregg Centre at the University of New Brunswick. He is
an authority on insurgency, counter-insurgency and international terrorism.
Brent Wilson, MA, is the Gregg Centre's Executive Editor and
Co-Director of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project. He brings
to this book his knowledge of the Canadian Forces' mental health and
family support system, and the Atlantic region's military heritage.
