Baghdad Operators

Baghdad Operators

by Andrew Rawson and James Glasse
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/01/2020

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p across worn torn Iraq in the spring 2003. Discover how they used their unique military skills to create a successful security company with over 300 employees during the early days of the occupation. See how Iraq was torn apart from the inside from someone who was there and get an insight into what it took to rebuild a country ripped apart by war and insurgency.Discover how their journey moved from the Basra oilfields, where they apply their skills to beat the bad guys and get more work, into Baghdad dangerous streets. Learn how they used their Close Protection skills to escort their clients around the countrys electricity grid. Find out how the power stations became a target and what steps were taken to protect them from mortars, rockets and infiltrators. Learn how the insurgents upped up their game and turned their attentions on the security teams, using everything from snipers and rockets to car bombs and IEDs to try and kill them. Also see how the security teams played piggy in the middle between the American military and the Iraqi police and how they had to use their skills and wits to keep working. Even in Kurdistan, the safest part of the country, one wrong move could cost have cost lives.Find out how Britains ex-Special Forces helped Iraqs reconstruction and the part they had to pay along the way...

ISBN:
9781473828285
9781473828285
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-01-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books
Andrew Rawson

Andrew Rawson is a freelance writer who has over forty books to his name, including eight Pen and Sword 'Battleground Europe' travel books and three History Press 'Handbook' reference books.

He edited Eyes Only: The Top Secret Correspondence between Marshall and Eisenhower and Organizing Victory: The War Conferences 1941-1945. He has written two books covering Auschwitz Extermination Camp and wartime Krakow, as well as a ten part series on the British Army's campaigns 1914-18. He has a master's degree with Birmingham University's history department.

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