“Afghanistan is just like the puzzle of puzzles.” Army intelligence officer John Garvin spent a deployment in Kandahar unable to clarify why the preventing was so dangerous. Years later, he began fixing it on Google Earth, and he introduced that map to Fight Story.
John served as an Army intelligence officer with the fifth Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, out of Fort Lewis. His brigade educated for Baghdad, despatched troopers to Arabic college, then realized on the Nationwide Coaching Middle that the mission had modified to southern Afghanistan. John deployed to Kandahar in 2009, returned to Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, and left the Army in 2015. By 2017 he was rebuilding the conflict on a map, layering terrain, ethnic strains, and a timestamped document of roughly 90,000 fight occasions.
In a brand new format for the present, John shares his display and briefs AJ the way in which he as soon as briefed senior leaders. He walks from his Stryker brigade’s first weeks within the Arghandab to Alexander the Nice, the Soviet invasion, the warlords of the Nineties, and the tribal politics that rebuilt the Taliban. He additionally lays AJ’s personal Fallujah and Now Zad missions onto the map. Alongside the way in which, AJ and John examine Iraq with Afghanistan, and John explains why Afghanistan was a distinct conflict.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
04:26 A Stryker Brigade Educated for Iraq Goes to Afghanistan
21:43 First Contact in Kandahar
26:19 Discovering Google Earth on the Secret Community
31:46 Mapping Fallujah
37:16 Afghanistan’s Ethnic Map and the Durand Line
47:28 The Arghandab: Orchards, IEDs, and the Stryker’s Limits
49:05 Placing Names and Faces on the Map
1:02:00 Why John Retains Mapping
1:05:34 Alexander the Nice and the Geography of Afghanistan
1:11:56 Soviets, Warlords, and the Rise of the Taliban
1:25:00 Pakistan, Partition, and Proxy Forces
1:35:47 Tora Bora, Kunar, and Restrepo
1:49:23 How Tribal Politics Rebuilt the Taliban
2:00:44 Coaching an Afghan Army in Our Picture
2:11:56 AJ Revisits Now Zad on the Map
2:40:33 What Went Flawed, and What Comes Subsequent
2:44:52 “Dad, You Gained the Warfare, Proper?”
2:54:05 Closing Ideas
GUEST: John Garvin
John Garvin is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and army historian who served two excursions in Afghanistan, in 2009 and 2013 to 2014, with the fifth Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, earlier than leaving the Army in 2015. He now builds detailed maps of wars and the historical past behind them in Google Earth and ArcGIS Earth, bringing geography, tribal dynamics, and army historical past collectively in a single image.
HOST: AJ Pasciuti
AJ Pasciuti is a retired Marine Power Recon Scout Sniper and Infantry Weapons Officer (Marine Gunner), creator of Darkhorse: Harnessing Hidden Potential in Warfare and Life, and host of the Fight Story Podcast, the place veterans and extraordinary people share trustworthy, unfiltered tales of fight, survival, management, and life after adversity.
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Web site: https://www.ajpasciuti.com/
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