Eyewitness to War Oral History Series: US Army Advisors in Afghanistan is the third publication by the Combat Studies Institute that makes exclusive use of oral history. This volume is a product of interviews obtained by the CSI Operational Leadership Experience (OLE) project and our Contemporary Operations Study Team (COST). The interviews used in this volume range from a senior officer who conceptualized the idea for Task Force Phoenix, the Coalition Joint Task Force that execute a broad-based training, mentoring, and assistance program aimed at improving the Afghan National Army's (ANA) ability to field mission-ready operational commands, to embedded transition team members assigned to coach, teach and mentor their ANA counterparts. The interviews are in their own words; they provide frank commentary to a range of topics including pre-deployment training, logistics support, poppy eradication (and some of the corruption they encountered associated with that task) and integration of Special Forces with conventional infantry on operations.

In the midst of the political uncertainty of 1990s Northern Ireland, men at arms on both sides of the conflict are willing to kill to suit their ends, and a British Army helicopter crew find themselves used as pawns in the most deadly game of all... Fast-paced and full of gripping detail 'HMG' is a striking example of military fiction done right, giving a window into the military action thrillers and suspense of aviators' lives in the prelude to the first IRA ceasefire in 1994. Nick Shaw and his crew are used to covert ops - they've seen action and adventure all over the world, most recently in Bosnia, where they carried out another successful mission and captured an enemy general. But now the British Army has another mission for them, this time in a military action against two senior members of the IRA. When the operation goes wrong and with members of his crew killed and wounded, Shaw finds himself needing a break from the action and adventure of his Army career. When another officer is murdered, however, he finds himself thrust into a covert world of action thrillers and suspense, framed for a crime he did not commit and hunted by men at arms willing to pay anything for the price of peace. With time running out, Shaw must discover the real motive behind the crime, and it's not just his life on the line... A stunning new piece of military fiction, 'HMG' draws you in to a world of danger, conspiracies, action and adventure.