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The Battle Of Wanat And Small Unit Distributed Operations -- Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal
The RAND Corporation plans to publish a series of reports on small unit operations in Afghanistan. The purpose of its project is to improve the performance and reduce the risks to small units that are tasked to operate independently in ambiguous or hostile battlefield environments.
RAND chose the now-famous 2008 battle at Wanat in Afghanistan’s Nuristan Province, as a case study for its first report in this series. This battle, which involved a surprise Taliban assault on a platoon-sized temporary and unfortified vehicle patrol base, resulted in nine U.S. soldiers killed and 27 U.S. and Afghan soldiers wounded. The combat outpost was abandoned soon thereafter.
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