Interview video about Afghanistan

This is a video of an interview of William Lawrence (my brother) about his two deployments in Afghanistan: William Lawrence | Americans in Wartime Experience. He spent 23 months there.

It is part of series that the Americans in Wartime Museum has been doing on interviewing veterans: Americans in Wartime Experience

They have 529 interviews posted on-line now: Watch Voices of Freedom® Oral History Videos | Americans in Wartime Experience

I do have some pictures of some of the sites he is discussing. They were originally assembled for my book America’s Modern Wars.

Referenced at 7:50

The old and the new, Soviet tank park next to the Dyncorp compound near Kunduz, 4 May 2008 (photo by William A. Lawrence II).
U.S. Army near Kunduz, 5 May 2008 (photo by William A. Lawrence II).
German forces near Kunduz, 4 May 2008 (photo by William A. Lawrence
II).
Afghan village near Kunduz, 5 May 2008 (photo by William A. Lawrence II).

Not referenced:

Suicide bomber in Baghlan Jadid, April 2009. The bomber was walking down the road trying to set off an explosive device as the photographer passed by in a truck. The bomb failed to explode. The bomber was found later by the local Afghan police still wearing the harness, but with no explosives. They released him (photo by William A. Lawrence II).

Referenced at 15:30

The Tora Bora Mountains (photo by William A. Lawrence II, 14 February 2011).
Camp Lonestar, near Jalalabad, 7 October 2010 (photo by William A. Lawrence II).
Afghan police in training, 5 October 2010 (taken by William A. Lawrence II).
Afghan police in training, near Jalalabad, 15 August 2010 (photo by friend of William A. Lawrence II).
Graduation day for 500 Afghan Border Police officers. Their basic academy was six weeks long and they were trained in small unit tactics, firearms, law enforcement, and conducting mobile and dismounted patrols utilizing their police vehicles (photo by William A. Lawrence II, 2010).
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Christopher A. Lawrence
Christopher A. Lawrence

Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.
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Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.
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His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) , The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019), The Battle for Kyiv (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2023), Aces at Kursk (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024), Hunting Falcon: The Story of WWI German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024) and The Siege of Mariupol (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2024).
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Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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