In 2010, the 1st Mechanized Brigade of Châlons-en-Champagne set up Task Force La Fayette V, designated to serve the following year in Afghanistan, a state plunged for four decades into a particularly deadly conflict.
It is in the majestic, but extremely dangerous setting of this distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with pride and abnegation, tirelessly planning and leading operations intended to achieve the objectives their country had set for them: to hold the province. from Kapisa, train the Afghan army, reduce the number of Taliban and finally begin the gradual disengagement of the French contingent.
While France has now left the Afghan theater, this book was written both to serve the history of this generation of 70,000 French soldiers who took turns for eleven years and to pay tribute to those who 2011-2012 were maneuvering in daily battles and during which they lost several of their own.
It is in the majestic, but extremely dangerous setting of this distant country that these men carried out their duty as soldiers with pride and abnegation, tirelessly planning and leading operations intended to achieve the objectives their country had set for them: to hold the province. from Kapisa, train the Afghan army, reduce the number of Taliban and finally begin the gradual disengagement of the French contingent.
While France has now left the Afghan theater, this book was written both to serve the history of this generation of 70,000 French soldiers who took turns for eleven years and to pay tribute to those who 2011-2012 were maneuvering in daily battles and during which they lost several of their own.