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Operation Eagle's Summit : ウィキペディア英語版 | Operation Eagle's Summit
Operation Eagle's Summit (Oqab Tsuka in Pashto) was a military operation conducted by ISAF and Afghan National Army troops, with the objective of transporting a 220-tonne turbine to the Kajaki dam in Helmand province through territory controlled by Taliban insurgents. Ending in success for the coalition, it involved mostly British troops, and was said to have been one of the largest logistical operations carried out by the British Army since World War II. The operation took its name from the eagle pictured on the insignia of the 16th Air Assault Brigade. ==Restoring Kajaki dam== The Kajaki hydroelectric dam was completed in 1953 with the aid of a loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States,〔(Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State ), Nick Cullather, Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Pp. 512-537.〕 in order to provide electricity and irrigation to the population of Helmand and Kandahar provinces under the Helmand Valley Authority. It was supposed to house three turbines, but only two were ever installed, and after years of civil war, only one was still in service by 2001 In 2004, the United States started work on restoring the dam's capacity and bringing its output to 53 megawatts. One turbine was repaired in 2005, but the restoration was hampered by the difficulty of delivering new turbines to Kajaki through Taliban-controlled territory, that required a large-scale military operation.
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