My Long War

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Six deployments. Twenty-six years. A soldier's account of Australia's long wars. For more than a quarter of a century, Major General Roger Noble stood at the centre of Australia's contribution to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor. His career spans the evolution of Coalition warfare from the immediate aftermath of the Cold War to the brutal fight against ISIS. As a 26-year-old captain, he helped destroy chemical weapons inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Decades later, he served as Deputy Commanding General of the Coalition Land Force responsible for the liberation of Mosul in 2016. Between those moments lay six operational deployments and a generation of continuous conflict. My Long War is both a personal account and a strategic reckoning. Noble commanded at the tactical street corner of war, where split-second decisions carried life-or-death consequences. He later helped oversee large, complex multinational campaigns in which military action was inseparable from politics, diplomacy and media scrutiny. He writes candidly about the realities of fighting among the people in remote and fractured societies. About the strain of command. About death, catastrophic injury and the enduring weight carried by those who serve. He addresses the most difficult questions head-on: insider attacks, allegations of misconduct, the ethics of targeting, and the constant effort to prevent civilian casualties while confronting adaptive and ruthless adversaries. Beyond the battlefield, Noble e

• Binding: Hardcover

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