Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015

by Forrest L Marion and Forrest L. Marion

From the 1920s Afghanistan maintained a small air arm that depended heavily upon outside assistance. Starting in 2005, the United States led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF). In 2007 a formal joint/combined entity, led by a U.S. Air Force brigadier general, began air advisor work with Afghan airmen. Between 2007 and 2011, these efforts made modest progress in terms of infrastructures, personnel and aircraft accessions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682473368
• ISBN13: 9781682473368
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"