Frontline Insights: Infantry Operations in Southern Afghanistan

About the event:

Lunch-Time Presentation: Three

Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel J O'Sullivan, (late) Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion. The Parachute Regiment.

UK Forces have now been heavily committed to major expeditionary military operations for a total of 12 years.  In that time, much has been learnt about warfare in the modern age. 

Following swiftly concluded ‘conventional’ wars, the subsequent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have been of a very different character.  In adapting to the demands of the enduring insurgencies in these countries and the contemporaneous ‘War on Terror’, each of the Armed Services has experienced a steep learning curve and continues to adapt to the needs of a dynamic security environment.  

The operations being conducted today in Basra Province, the Arabian Gulf and the shadow of the Hindu Kush may contain fundamental similarities to historic wars but they are essentially different in execution.  Today’s Albion warriors are experiencing something new. 

Following Presentations are as follows:

• Tuesday 10 February 2009: Joint Helicopter Force Operations In A Counter-Insurgency. 
  Wing Commander Dominic Toriati MBE MA RAF, Officer Commanding 27 Squadron RAF.
• Monday 9 March 2009: Fight In, Fight Out - The Operation To Withdraw From Basra Palace. Speakers: Colonel P N Y M Sanders DSO OBE (Late CO 4 RIFLES).
• Monday 6 April 2009: The Royal Navy And Task Force Operations In The Persian Gulf.
  Speaker: Royal Navy warship commander.

A sandwich lunch will be available from 1215-1300, with the presentation and subsequent question session from 1300-1430.

Individual event prices are £20 (inc VAT), including a sandwich lunch and 15% of the subscription fee will go to a charity of the speakers’ choice. 

British Military personnel attend for free. 

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