Afghan Command

IN AFGHAN COMMAND, BGen Steven Bullard (Ret.) shares his daily journal written during his deployment as the NATO/International Security Assistance Force commander at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, from September 2006-March 2007. BGen Bullard describes the challenges of leader-ship in a military coalition environment where the long-term intent was assumed, but never truly clear. Working with Afghan nationals plus military personnel and civilian contractors from eleven different nations, Bullard's role could be described as a combination of logistics management and interpersonal relations, not to mention the over-sight of a multi-million dollar facility, machines and equipment, and hundreds of personnel. Written during his first "wartime" deployment command, then Col. Bullard was in charge of the busy Kandahar Air Field including everything from flight operations, fuel management, construction and maintenance of the facilities and runways, plus managing conflicts between ISAF military service branches and civilians from across the globe, all while enduring the heat, sand storms, and insurgent rocket attacks on an almost daily basis. Originally written to be a source of remembrance and reflection of what he calls a "once-in-a-lifetime experience", Afghan Command presents an interesting account of military life on foreign soil at the height of the U.S. War in Afghanistan.

• | Author: Steven P Bullard
• | Publisher: Acclaim Press, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1956027416
• | ISBN-13: 9781956027419