Article: Desert of Death: A Soldier's Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: 'Harry's War': The ugly truth ; Afghanistan veteran, ...
Belfast Telegraph;  March 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... your duty". The desire to serve in Afghanistan is reinforced by a vague knowledge of ... 000 people died in the conflict across Afghanistan, of which approximately 1,400 were ... week in Washington that security in Afghanistan is "deteriorating" as President Karzai ...

Article: AFGHANISTAN: ANTI-TALIBAN FIGHT CRITICIZED AS ALL ARMY, NO ...
Interpress Service;  September 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... led military actions in Afghanistan says the failure to follow ... against the West. Capt. Leo Docherty, who was an aide to the ... the southern district of Afghanistan where fighting between the ... effects of drug policies in Afghanistan, told IPS. "We can still ...

Article: Other books on Afghanistan
The Sunday Herald;  May 10, 2009 ;     483 words ...THE fighting in Afghanistan has spawned a growing ... Death (Faber), by Leo Docherty reveals, often with ... Story Of The War In Afghanistan (Bantam). Both accounts ... From The Front Line In Afghanistan (Constable) is also ...

Article: Army ordered to report every civilian death to Afghanistan ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  July 1, 2007 ;     644 words ... ... increasing controversy inside Afghanistan over those beingkilled during ... soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year but nofigures have ... rushed into service. Captain Leo Docherty, who fought last year in ... undertake because UK forces arein Afghanistan at the behest of the Afghan ...

Article: 'RAF would have lost 'Battle of Britain' with ...
Asian News International;  October 12, 2009 ;     600 words ... ... equipment shortage faced by the country's troops in Afghanistan and said that had the Royal Air Force been faced ... from Iraq. Ex-Scots Guards officer Captain Leo Docherty, an Afghanistan veteran, added: "A half-hour journey by helicopter ...

Article: We soldiers once assumed our political bosses would not lie to ...
The Independent on Sunday;  May 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Helmand produces 40 per cent of Afghanistan's opium crop, the source ... Catastrophes in Iraq and Afghanistan and years of resource-starvation ... won't be fooled again." Leo Docherty is author of 'Desert of ... s Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan', published by Faber and ...

Article: Make Afghan poverty history. Then the troops can go home
The Independent on Sunday;  February 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... more than military sticks, says former soldier Leo Docherty Afghanistan has come a long way since the dark days of the ... least 6,000 people died in the conflict across Afghanistan, of which approximately 1,400 were civilians ...