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There are 2 books out about the deployment of the UK's Para unit.
The moral of the story is: the afghanistan war is unwinnable. When the war started, they had the intention that the war would be won by the hearts and minds approach. Building schools and hospitals, making the roads better, and improving Afghani's lives. This for the most part hasn't happen. The strategy now is to set up fire bases, go out on patrols, get shot at by rockets/snipers/mortars then when they're tired of this, they withdraw from the bases and set up somewhere else.
They have had some success in a few areas, but if you read these accounts, it leaves little doubt there will never be total victory in Afghanistan.
Gotta be Patrick Bishops's 3 PARA (amazon UK, amazon US) or The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (amazon UK, amazon US)
3 PARA is a British journalist's account of the 2006 tour of Afghan, focussing on the operations of the 3 PARA battle group, while The JORC is a semi-biographical account of the early career of Patrick Hennessey, detailing his time in training at Sandhurst and Brecon, going on to multiple tours as a Pl Comd with the Gren Guards.
Both well worth a read.