Burden of Command: A Tale of Extraordinary Leadership in Afghanistan - Softcover

Millen, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1456408135 ISBN 13: 9781456408138

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

When a mixed group of American and German soldiers becomes surrounded by elite al Qaeda forces in remote northeast Afghanistan, two unlikely soldiers take charge and organize the defense until a relief force can come to their rescue. Unexpectantly, the defenders have captured something al Qaeda desperately wants to retrieve and spares nothing in the endeavor.

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About the Author

Lieutenant Colonel Raymond A. Millen (Ret) is the Security Sector Reform analyst at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1982 and served as an infantry officer and Foreign Area Officer for Western Europe in a variety of command and staff assignments in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Continental United States as well as three tours in Afghanistan. He has published articles in a number of scholarly and professional journals to include Parameters, Special Warfare, Comparative Strategy Journal, Infantry Magazine and the Swiss Military Journal. His book, Command Legacy, was published by Brasseys in 2002 with a second edition by Potomac Books in 2008. Lieutenant Colonel Millen is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (1997), and holds an M.A. degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University (1991) and an M.A. degree from Catholic University of America in World Politics (2006). He is currently All-But-Dissertation for his Ph.D. in World Politics at Catholic University of America. Professor Millen and his wife currently live in Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1456408135
• ISBN 13: 9781456408138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270