Deployed and Back Again: A Fobbit's Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deployed and Back Again: A Fobbit's Tale write by Joshua Heath. This book was released on 2019-07-17. Deployed and Back Again: A Fobbit's Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This memoir tells the story of one soldier's deployment to Iraq and parts of his personal story that led to that deployment. This is not a normal war story. This is a story of a Fobbit, a soldier that never went on missions, that saw nothing of traditional war. Yet, it is a tale that captures the peculiar nature of modern warfare in a way like no other story does.
Fobbit
Fobbit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fobbit write by David Abrams. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Fobbit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Iraq war comedy that “is everything that terrible conflict was not: beautifully planned and perfectly executed; funny and smart and lyrical; a triumph” (Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life). Fobbit ’fä-bit, noun. Definition: A US soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003–2011). Pejorative. In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit, a New York Times Notable Book, takes us into the chaotic world of Baghdad’s Forward Operating Base Triumph. The Forward Operating base, or FOB, is like the back-office of the battlefield—where people eat and sleep, and where a lot of soldiers have what looks suspiciously like a desk job. Male and female soldiers are trying to find an empty Porta Potty in which to get acquainted, grunts are playing Xbox and watching NASCAR between missions, and a lot of the senior staff are more concerned about getting to the chow hall in time for the Friday night all-you-can-eat seafood special than worrying about little things like military strategy. Darkly humorous and based on the author’s own experiences in Iraq, Fobbit is a fantastic debut that shows us a behind-the-scenes portrait of the real Iraq war. “This novel nails the comedy and the pathos, the boredom and the dread, crafting the Iraq War’s answer to Catch-22.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
My Dad is Going Away But He Will be Back One Day!
My Dad is Going Away But He Will be Back One Day! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Dad is Going Away But He Will be Back One Day! write by James Thomas. This book was released on 2014. My Dad is Going Away But He Will be Back One Day! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Military families spend time apart while serving their country, with one or more parents deployed. This beautifully illustrated children's picture book helps explain to the child how life will continue while the parent is away and how to communicate over the distance until the day they reunite. The story and art enables each child to interact with the deployed parent by talking about ways to keep in touch, so they can emulate.
Gendering Counterinsurgency
Gendering Counterinsurgency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendering Counterinsurgency write by Synne L. Dyvik. This book was released on 2016-12-08. Gendering Counterinsurgency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book examines the US led war in Afghanistan from 2001 onwards, including the invasion, the population-centric counterinsurgency operations and the efforts to train a new Afghan military charged with securing the country when the US and NATO withdrew their combat forces in 2014. Through an analysis of key counterinsurgency texts and military memoirs, the book explores how gender and counterinsurgency are co-constitutive in numerous ways. It discusses the multiple military masculinities that counterinsurgency relies on, the discourse of ‘cultural sensitivity’, and the deployment of Female Engagement Teams (FETs). Gendering Counterinsurgency demonstrates how population-centric counterinsurgency doctrine and practice can be captured within a gendered dynamic of ‘killing and caring’ – reliant on physical violence, albeit mediated through ‘armed social work’. This simultaneously contradictory and complementary dynamic cannot be understood without recognising how the legitimation and the practice of this war relied on multiple gendered embodied performances of masculinities and femininities. Developing the concept of ‘embodied performativity’ this book shows how the clues to understanding counterinsurgency, as well as gendering war more broadly are found in war’s everyday gendered manifestations. This book will be of much interest to students of counterinsurgency warfare, gender politics, governmentality, biopolitics, critical war studies, and critical security studies in general.
The Snake Eaters
The Snake Eaters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Snake Eaters write by Owen West. This book was released on 2012-05. The Snake Eaters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents the achievements of a team of reservists and National Guardsmen who built an Iraqi battalion and fought side by side with the first Iraqi soldiers granted independent battle space.
