War in Afghanistan order of battle, 2012

Coalition forces in Afghanistan (2012)

This list covers coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2012. See the article Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom for coalition support for Operation Enduring Freedom from October 2001 to 2003. For coalition forces involved in NATO combat operations in the past, see the articles Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006, Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2007, and Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2008.
The ISAF seal. The ISAF flag.

Below is the disposition and structure of international military forces that were participating in the War in Afghanistan in November 2012, listing deployed units under the command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which controlled both combat and reconstruction operations (often led by the Provincial Reconstruction Teams). During its existence from 2001 to 2014, despite the photos in this article only showing American soldiers, marines and sailors, the ISAF comprised units from many countries, including: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom and others. In this article, units are assumed to be from the United States unless otherwise stated. This list is a rough and unofficial listing of units and formations.

## International Security Assistance Force

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A U.S. 25th Infantry Division soldier with the ISAF patrolling the Paktya Province in January 2012. A U.S. 4th Infantry Division soldier with the ISAF soldier during a joint operation with Afghan police in Kandahar in February 2012. A U.S. Marine with the ISAF walking alongside Afghan children in Afghanistan's Helmand Province in April 2012. U.S. soldiers with the ISAF, with Afghan policemen in April 2012. U.S. soldiers with the ISAF in Farah Province in April 2012. A U.S. soldier with the ISAF in May 2012. A U.S. sailor with the ISAF in June 2012. A U.S. sailor with the ISAF in June 2012. U.S. soldiers with the ISAF in July 2012. A U.S. soldier with the ISAF in August 2012 engaged in battle. U.S. soldiers with the ISAF in August 2012. An Afghan soldier in November 2012. An Afghan policeman in December 2012.

The overall command of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in 2012 started from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe at Casteau, Belgium. The overall command was vested in Joint Force Command Brunssum at Brunssum in the Netherlands, then the Commander ISAF (COMISAF). The COMISAF in 2012 was USMC General John R. Allen, at ISAF Headquarters in Kabul.

There were three subordinate commands under COMISAF: the Intermediate Joint Command, which controls the tactical battle along the lines of the Multi-National Corps Iraq; the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, which trains the Afghan National Army; and Special Operations Forces.

The Intermediate Joint Command in turn controlled the regional commands, roughly analogous to divisions. There were six regional commands: Capital (at Kabul), South, Southwest, North, East, and West. Each regional command had a headquarters to provide command and control and logistics support for its area of responsibility, and comprised both combat units and Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs).

### Regional Command Capital

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* Commander: Brigadier General Rafet Sevinc Sasmaz (Turkey)
* Headquarters: Kabul
* Area of responsibility: Kabul Province

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking

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1st Battalion Motorized Task Force (Turkey) | Camp Dogan, Kabul | Responsible for Kabul Province.
2nd Battalion Motorized Task Force (Turkey) | Camp Gazi, Kabul | Responsible for Kabul Province.

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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Regional Command Capital has no Provincial Reconstruction Teams.

### Regional Command South

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* Commander: Major General Robert Abrams (USA)
* Headquarters: Kandahar Airfield
* Area of responsibility: Kandahar, Orūzgān, and Zabul Provinces.

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking | Dates |

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76th Brigade Combat Team
Combined Team Uruzgan | Camp Holland, Tarin Kowt | Responsible for Orūzgān Province.
3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
(Task Force Arrowhead) | FOB Masum Ghar, Panjwaye | Responsible for Zabul Province and southern and eastern Kandahar Province
2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
(Task Force Lancer) | Camp Nathan Smith | Responsible for Kandahar City and Arghandab District. | May 2012 – January 2013
25th Combat Aviation Brigade
(Task Force Wings) | Kandahar Airfield | Aviation support for Regional Command South.

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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Designation | Composition | Headquarters | Sponsors

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PRT Kandahar |  | Kandahar | Lead country: U.S.
PRT Uruzgan |  | Tarin Kowt | Lead country: Australia
PRT Zabul |  | Qalat | Lead country: U.S.
Supporting countries: Romania
United Kingdom

### Regional Command Southwest

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* Commander: Major General Charles M. Gurganus (USMC)
* Headquarters: Camp Leatherneck, Helmand
* Area of Operations: Helmand and Nimruz Provinces

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking

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12th Mechanized Brigade (United Kingdom)
(Task Force Helmand) | MOB Lashkar Gah | Conducts ground operations in central Helmand Province.
Regimental Combat Team 6
(Task Force Leatherneck) | Camp Leatherneck | Responsible for Nimruz Province and northern and southern Helmand Province.
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing | Camp Leatherneck | Aviation support in Helmand and Nimruz Provinces.
Joint Aviation Group (United Kingdom) | Camp Bastion | Headquarters for British aviation units.

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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* PRT Helmand (Lead nation: United Kingdom)

Designation | Composition | Headquarters | Sponsors

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PRT Helmand |  | Lashkar Gah | Lead nation: UK

### Regional Command East

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* Commander: Major General Bill Mayville, USA
* Headquarters: Bagram Airfield
* Area of responsibility: Ghazni, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktia, Panjshir, Parwan and Wardak Provinces and Surobi District of Kabul Province

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking

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4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
(Task Force Dragon) | FOB Sharana | Responsible for Paktika Province.
4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
(Task Force Warrior) | Jalalabad Airfield | Responsible for Nangarhar, Laghman, Nuristan, and Kunar Provinces.
173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
(Task Force Bayonet) | FOB Shank, Logar | Responsible for Logar and Wardak Provinces.
101st Combat Aviation Brigade
(Task Force Destiny) | Bagram Airfield | Provides aviation support for eastern and northern Afghanistan.
4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division
(Task Force Spartan) | FOB Salerno, Khost | Responsible for Khost and Paktia Provinces.
2nd Armored Brigade (France)
(Task Force Lafayette) | FOB Nijrab, Kapisa | Responsible for Kapisa Province.
6th Airborne Brigade (Task Force White Eagle, Poland) | FOB Ghazni | Responsible for Ghazni Province.

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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Designation | Composition | Headquarters | Sponsors

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PRT Logar | 200 military personnel
10 civilians | FOB Shank | Lead nation: Czech Republic[1]
PRT Ghazni |  |  | Lead nation: Poland
Supporting nation: U.S.
Provincial Reconstruction Team (New Zealand) |  | Bamiyan, Bamiyan Province | Lead nation: New Zealand
PRT Kapisa |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.
Supporting nation: France
PRT Parwan |  |  | Lead nation: South Korea
PRT Wardak |  |  | Lead nation: Turkey
PRT Panjshir |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Paktika |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Mehtar Lam |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Khost |  | FOB Salerno | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Nangahar |  | Jalalabad | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Patkia |  | Gardez | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Kunar |  | Asadabad | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Nuristan |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.

### Regional Command North

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* Commander: Major General Erich Pfeffer, Germany
* Headquarters: Mazar-i-Sharif
* Area of responsibility – Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Faryab, Jowzjan, Kunduz, Samangan, Sar-e Pul and Takhar Provinces.

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking

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Task Force Kunduz (Germany) | FOB Kunduz | Operating in eastern Regional Command North.
Task Force Mazar-e-Sharif (Germany) | Camp Marmal | Operating in western Regional Command North.
Expeditionary Air Wing Mazar-e-Sharif (Germany) | Camp Marmal | Aviation support for northern Afghanistan.
3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
(Task Force Garry Owen) | FOB Kunduz | Operating in Kunduz province

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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Designation | Composition | Headquarters | Sponsors

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PRT Kunduz |  |  | Lead nation: Germany
Supporting countries: Armenia
Belgium
U.S.
PRT Mazar-i-Sharif |  |  | Lead nations: Finland and Sweden
Supporting countries: U.S.
PRT Meymaneh |  |  | Lead nation: Norway
Supporting countries: Latvia
Macedonia
U.S.
PRT Pul-e Khumri |  |  | Lead nation: Hungary
Supporting nations: Albania
Croatia
Montenegro
PRT Faizabad |  |  | Lead nation: Germany
Supporting nations: Mongolia
U.S.

### Regional Command West[2]

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* Commander: Brigadier General Dario Mari Ranieri, Italy
* Headquarters: Camp Arena, Herat
* Area of responsibility: Badghis, Farah, Ghor, and Herat Provinces
* Airfields: Herat International Airport, Shindand Air Base

#### Combat units

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Unit | Headquarters | Tasking

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Task Force Badghis (Spain) | Qala-e-Naw | Operating in Badghis Province.
3rd Alpine Regiment, Italy
(Task Force Center) | Camp La Marmora, Shindand | Operating in southern Herat Province.
32nd Engineer Regiment, Italy
(Task Force Genio) | Herat | Engineer support for western Afghanistan.
9th Alpine Regiment, Italy
(Task Force South) | Camp El Alamein, Farah | Operating in western Farah Province.
2nd Alpine Regiment, Italy
(Task Force Southeast) | Camp Lavaredo, Bakwa District | Operating in eastern Farah Province.
7th Aviation Regiment, Italy
(Task Force Fenice) | Herat Airfield | Providing aviation support for western Afghanistan.

#### Provincial Reconstruction Teams

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Unit | Sub-units | Headquarters | Tasking

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PRT Herat |  |  | Lead nation: Italy
PRT Farah |  |  | Lead nation: U.S.
PRT Qal'ah-ye Now |  |  | Lead nation: Spain
PRT Chagcharan |  |  | Lead nation: Lithuania

## U.S.-led coalition

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In 2012, the overall command of the U.S.-led coalition effort in Afghanistan—known as Operation Enduring Freedom—Afghanistan—was headquartered at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, which reported to United States Central Command. OEF-Afghanistan's two major commands in 2012 were Combined Joint Task Force 101, and the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A).[3] After the Stage IV transition of authority to ISAF, the status of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade/Task Force Falcon, which handles all the helicopter combat aviation duties in Afghanistan, was uncertain, along with the exact status of Combined Task Force Sword, the engineer task force, and the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force. It was unclear exactly what units are assigned to OEF-Afghanistan, but the operation in 2012 was in charge of counter-terrorist operations, including pursuing al-Qaeda along Afghanistan's inhospitable border region with Pakistan.[4]

Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A)

* In 2012, this command was responsible for training the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police through its headquarters and Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) Phoenix.[5] CSTC-A was responsible for mentoring the ministries of defense and interior, while CJTF Phoenix was responsible for mentoring Afghan National Army corps and below and Afghan National Police districts and below. CJTF Phoenix was headquartered by the 33rd Brigade Combat Team, Illinois Army National Guard, which relieved the 27th Brigade Combat Team, New York Army National Guard in late 2008, which relieved the 218th Brigade Combat Team, South Carolina Army National Guard in early 2008. The rest of the task force was made up of National Guard and Reserve personnel from 42 states, U.S. Marine Corps reservists, active duty representatives from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps, and soldiers assigned from France, Germany, Romania, Canada, New Zealand, Mongolia, and the United Kingdom.

## References

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1. ^ "ISAF – Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar". Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
2. ^ For more on Regional Command West, see "The Italian Job". Jane's Defence Weekly.(5 November 2008) and the Jane's Interview, same issue.
3. ^ United States Central Command, CSTC-A Official Website Archived 22 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "Securing Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 9 April 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
5. ^ Florida Army National Guard, Task Force Phoenix Archived 1 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to War in Afghanistan in 2012.

* War in Afghanistan Order of Battle – Institute for the Study of War
* Troop Levels in Afghanistan Since 2001 – interactive map by The New York Times
* Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan/Task Force Leatherneck

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| 2001|

* Bombing of Kandahar
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* Herat uprising
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2002
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* 2002
* Guantanamo Bay
* Uruzgan bombing
* Kabul bombing
* 2003
* Pakistan Embassy in Kabul attack
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* Taliban offensive

2007|

* Shinwar shooting
* Hyderabad airstrike
* Nangar Khel incident
* Helmand airstrikes
* Baghlan bombing
* Bagram bombing
* South Korean hostage crisis

2008|

* Haska Meyna airstrike
* Azizabad airstrike
* Wech Bagtu airstrike
* Kabul Indian embassy bombing
* Kabul S Hotel attack
* Kidnapping of David Rohde
* Sarposa attack
* Kandahar bombing
* Spin Boldak bombing

2009|

* Granai airstrike
* Kunduz airstrike
* Narang raid
* February Kabul raids
* Kabul Indian embassy bombing
* Kandahar bombing
* NATO HQ bombing
* Camp Chapman attack
* Battle of Sabzak

2010|

* January Kabul attack
* Raid on Khataba
* February Kabul attack
* Uruzgan attack
* Sangin airstrike
* Maywand murders
* Tarok Kolache
* Nadahan bombing
* May Kabul bombing
* Badakhshan massacre
* Operation Halmazag

2011|

* Mano Gai airstrike
* Sarposa prison escape
* Bin Laden raid
* Logar bombing
* I-C Hotel Kabul attack
* Nimruz bombing
* Zabul bombing
* Chinook shootdown
* Helmand killing
* Pakistani border attack
* Ashura bombings

2012|

* Order of battle
* Urination video
* Kapisa airstrike
* Quran burning protests
* April attacks
* Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre
* Kandahar massacre
* September Camp Bastion raid
* Shesh Aba raid
* Body pictures

2013|

* Farah attack
* June Kabul bombings
* Presidential palace attack
* Herat U.S. consulate attack
* Jalalabad Indian consulate bombing

2014|

* Kabul S Hotel attack
* Herat Indian consulate attack
* Bagram bombing
* Paktika bombing
* Yahyakhel bombing
* December Kabul bombings
* Atiqullah Raufi assassination

2015|

* Park Palace attack
* Kabul Parliament attack
* Khost bombing
* April Jalalabad bombing
* 7 August Kabul attacks
* 10 August Kabul bombing
* 22 August Kabul bombing
* Ghazni prison escape
* Battle of Kunduz
* Hospital airstrike
* Kandahar Airport bombing
* Kabul Spanish Embassy attack
* Bagram bombing

2016|

* Nangarhar offensive
* Operation Omari
* April Kabul attack
* Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis
* Kabul Canadian Embassy convoy bombing
* 30 June bombings
* July Kabul bombing
* Janikhel offensive
* AUoA attack
* September Kabul attacks
* Battle of Tarinkot
* Battle of Kunduz
* Battle of Boz Qandahari
* Mazar-i-Sharif German consulate bombing
* Bagram bombing

2017|

* January bombings
* Sangin airstrike
* March Kabul attack
* Nangarhar airstrike
* Camp Shaheen attack
* May Kabul bombing
* June Herat bombing
* Battle of Bora Bora
* June Lashkargar bombing
* August Herat attack
* 17 October attacks
* 20 October attacks
* 28 December Kabul bombing

2018|

* I-C Hotel Kabul attack
* STC Jalalabad attack
* Kabul ambulance bombing
* March Kabul bombing
* Kunduz madrassa attack
* 22 April Kabul bombing
* 30 April Kabul bombings
* Battle of Farah
* July Jalalabad bombing
* Battle of Darzab
* Ghazni offensive
* September Jalalabad bombing

2019|

* Maidan Shar attack
* Camp Shorabak attack
* 2019 Kabul mosque bombing
* 1 July Kabul attack
* Ghazni bombing
* 28 July Kabul bombing
* July Farah bombing
* 7 August Kabul bombing
* 17 August Kabul bombing
* 2 & 5 September Kabul bombings
* 17 September bombings
* Qalat bombing
* Jalalabad suicide bombing
* Haska Meyna mosque bombing
* Bagram attack

2020|

* 6 March Kabul shooting
* Kabul gurdwara attack
* May attacks
* June attacks
* July attacks
* August attacks
* Jalalabad prison
* September attacks
* October attacks
* November attacks
* Kabul University attack
* December attacks

2021|

* Attacks
* Taliban offensive
* Kabul school bombing
* Battle of Kandahar
* Fall of Herat
* Battle of Lashkargah
* Capture of Zaranj
* Fall of Kabul
* Kunduz mosque bombing
* Kandahar bombing
* 2021 Kabul airlift
* Operation Allies Refuge
* Operation Pitting
* Operation Devi Shakti
* Kabul airport attack
* August 29 drone strike

Aftermath|

* Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
* Republican insurgency
* Islamic State–Taliban conflict
* Afghan frozen assets

War crimes|

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