We Had the Watches. They Had the Time: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan

by Carol M. Burke

​This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army's four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031413032
• ISBN13: 9783031413032
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"