No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan

Horn, Colonel Bernd

ISBN 10: 1459724100 / ISBN 13: 9781459724105

Published by Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2016

About this Item

284pp., index, notes, ill., map.

Seller Inventory # 013519

Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan
• Publisher: Dundurn Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459724100
• ISBN 13: 9781459724105
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • War and Military

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Synopsis

The first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada’s elite warriors who operate in the shadows.

In 2001, the Canadian government sent elements of its Joint Task Force 2 counterterrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the Americans with Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror. Withdrawn a year later, after a brief hiatus JTF 2 returned to Afghanistan in 2005, beginning a continuous tour of duty for Canadian Special Operation Forces (CANSOF) up to the cessation of Canadian combat operations in 2011. This book reveals six untold special operations that CANSOF personnel undertook in their desperate struggle in the shadows to capture or kill Taliban leaders, facilitators, and bomb-makers, as well as efforts to mentor Afghan National Security Forces from 2005 to 2011. The missions highlight that the nation’s SOF were no ordinary men.

About the Author

Colonel Bernd Horn is a retired Regular Force infantry officer and military educator. Dr. Horn has authored, co-authored, and edited more than forty books, including A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection and No Ordinary Men: Special Operations Forces Missions in Afghanistan. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.