1st Edition
Sifting the Ashes Retaining the Hard-Won Lessons of Britain’s Afghan War
Introduction
Jack Watling
I. Leveraging Intelligence Assessment to Inform Strategy
Jack Watling
II. Civil–Military Cooperation: Lessons Repeated Until Learned
Paul O’Neill
III. Sustaining Dispersed Forces
Nick Reynolds and Sarah Ashbridge
IV. Overcoming the IED Threat in Afghanistan
Alistair Beard
V. Afghanistan as the Laboratory for Multi-Domain Integration
Sam Cranny-Evans and Juliana Suess
VI. Kicking the Close Air Support Addiction
Justin Bronk
Conclusions
Jack Watling
Biography
Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at RUSI. Jack works closely with the British military on the development concepts of operations and assessments of the future operating environment and conducts operational analysis of contemporary conflicts. Jack’s PhD examined the evolution of Britain’s policy responses to civil war in the early 20th century. He has worked extensively on Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen, Mali, Rwanda and further afield. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
