Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and if it's your first time here well where have you been we are dedicated to military history from Napoleonic battles to Cold War confrontations to the Normandy landings and 9-11.

Now speaking of 9-11 this week marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. Those first strikes on

October 7th 2001 less than a month after the attacks of 9-11.

And of course we had a week dedicated to understanding

the history and the evolution of terrorist attacks by hijacking terrorist attacks

on New York and those first-hand accounts of what it was like on that day

in New York City. But this week we're going to look at the war in Afghanistan from a slightly different

perspective. There's been lots of reports on the war in Afghanistan from a slightly different perspective.

There's been lots of reports on the war recently as the arguably botched withdrawal

from the country has taken place over the last couple of months.

And so what I wanted to do was look at a history of the conflict itself

by looking at a weapon that defined that conflict and that is the IED. Now we've got Patrick Bury on the podcast my good friend

Patty Bury and he served as a captain with a Royal Irish in Sanguine which was

one of the most heavily effective places by the IED, the improvised explosive device.

And in Paddy's own words in his book, Call Sign Hades,

he says there are many ways to die in Sanguin assassinations shoot and scoots from men on motorbikes

Ambushes and bullets and RPGs mortars and spiges rockets the usual but it is the IED that frightens us the hidden

traps of old shells and wires that change our soldiers love for the ground this

ground we've been taught to worship, every curve, every fold,

every crevice, this ground that can save us from all other deaths. In essence the IED teaches any infantryman not to trust the ground they walk on.

And so this is Paddy's account of his experience in Afghanistan. Hi Patty, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing today? I'm good, thanks, James, and yourself. I am good, yes. It is great to have

you back on the last time you were on here you were talking about Nazi mega structures. In fact,

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