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Elliot Ackerman mentioned reading this book by Winston Churchill while serving in Afghanistan, noting the relevance of the historical context to his current surroundings and experiences.
I remember sitting sitting at a firebase in Kuhnar which is up in north eastern Afghanistan reading Winston's church hills the Malik land field force which was like one of his first book which is all...
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Elliot Ackerman mentioned reading this book by Winston Churchill while serving in Afghanistan, noting the relevance of the historical context to his current surroundings and experiences.
I remember sitting sitting at a firebase in Kuhnar which is up in north eastern Afghanistan reading Winston's church hills the Malik land field force which was like one of his first book which is all about fighting in you know Northwest frontier province you know back when the British Empire held it and I'm reading this book and I'm looking and I can see the valleys that he's talking about where they had fought and you would drive around you know with you know with Afghans I mostly worked as an advisor to Afghan troops and you drive around these guys and be like yeah right up there that's the ambience ambush pass the Soviets there my grandfather ambushed you know my great grandfather ambush the British there and by the way we need to be careful at the Taliban don't ambush us there because this is always how they do it so it's like the so the geography like the actual tactical geography of war is handed down there like air loops one generation to the next like when the invader comes this is the past where we always kill them and now you understand sun and the next person will understand it