The Kunar ADT and The Afghan COIN Fight

How National Guard Agribusiness Development Teams Support Battle Space Commander's COunter INsurgency Operations

by LTC David M. Kelly


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 29/04/2011

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 488
ISBN : 9781456753047
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 488
ISBN : 9781456753030

About the Book

The Kunar Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) was created from volunteers from the 40th Infantry Division and Task Force Warrior of the California National Guard. ADTs are special units, which only exist in Afghanistan. The Kunar ADT supported Battle Space owners in the Kunar and Pech River valleys in north eastern Afghanistan. During the Kunar ADT’s deployment between September 2009 and August 2010 they saw combat 19 times while working in remote villages. This book is the chronicle of the Kunar ADT’s deployment and operations in support of counter insurgency (COIN) operations by working with farmers to stabilizing the economies of remote villages.


About the Author

LTC David Kelly has served in the National Guard since 1983 and has deployed three times. His first deployment was a humanitarian mission in Honduras to build schools; that was followed by a peace-keeping deployment in Kosovo, and in Afghanistan. His engineering and agriculture experience include design and construction of citrus processing plants in California, Texas, Mexico, and Florida, and construction of refineries.