Operation Herrick in the context of "Brimstone missile"

Anglo-Afghan Wars may refer to:

• First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842)
• Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)
• Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
• Hazara Expedition (1888)
• Expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani (1833–1834)
• Chitral Expedition (1895)
• Tochi Expedition (1897–1898)
• Siege of Malakand (1897)
• Mohmand campaign (1897–1898)
• Tirah Campaign (1897–1898)
• Mahsud Waziri blockade (1900–1902)
• Operations in the Tochi (1914–1915)
• Operations against the Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis (1915)
• Mohmand blockade (1916–1917)
• Operations against the Mahsuds (1917)
• Waziristan Campaign (1919–1920)
• Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)
• Pink's War (1925)
• Mohmand Campaign (1935)
• Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Operation Herrick (War in Afghanistan; November 2001 – December 2014)
  • Operation Toral (War in Afghanistan; December 2014 – August 2021)

Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) is a former British Military airbase, located northwest of the city of Lashkargah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The camp was situated in a remote desert area, far from population centres.

The camp was built by the British Army in 2005–06, and on 27 October 2014 the British Military handed over control to the Afghan Ministry of Defense. Between 2005 and October 2014 it was the logistics hub for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Helmand during the War in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick, and it was capable of accommodating over 32,000 people. It was the largest British overseas military camp built since the Second World War. The base was also home to troops from other states, including the United States and Denmark.

General Francis Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt, GCB, CBE, MC, DL (born 23 December 1950) is a retired senior British Army officer and member of the House of Lords. He was Chief of the General Staff (head of the British Army) from 2006 to 2009.Dannatt was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1971, and his first tour of duty was in Belfast as a platoon commander. During his second tour of operations, also in Northern Ireland, Dannatt was awarded the Military Cross. Following a major stroke in 1977, Dannatt considered leaving the army, but was encouraged by his commanding officer to stay. After Staff College, he became a company commander and eventually assumed command of the Green Howards in 1989. He attended and then commanded the Higher Command and Staff Course, after which he was promoted to brigadier. Dannatt was given command of the 4th Armoured Brigade in 1994 and in the following year commanded the British component of the Implementation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dannatt took command of the 3rd Mechanised Division in 1999 and simultaneously commanded British forces in Kosovo. After a brief tour in Bosnia, he was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff. Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, he became involved in planning for subsequent operations in the Middle East. As Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), a role he assumed in 2003, Dannatt led the ARRC headquarters in planning for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The ARRC served in Afghanistan in 2005, but by this time Dannatt was Commander-in-Chief, Land Command—the day-to-day commander of the British Army. He was responsible for implementing a controversial reorganisation of the infantry, which eventually resulted in his regiment, the Green Howards, being amalgamated into the Yorkshire Regiment.