12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers, an action-war film about the real-life exploits of a Special Forces A-team in northern Afghanistan in 2001, exudes the vibe that it might be THE war-film to galvanize appreciation of American fighting-man derring-do in the Post...
How did Rory survive a walk across post-9/11 Afghanistan— just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, in the middle of winter, during a war, stalked by hungry wolves — despite being “guaranteed” it would mean certain death? What it was like to be one of the first people to see th...
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who had been at war with each other over the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan. Within the Obama administration, doubts about McChrystal’s ability to lead had been festering privately for months. In May, a month before the blowup, one White House official had told me that Petraeus...
When I first met my future mother-in-law 10 years ago, I told her, much to my future husband’s horror, that my dream was to be a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Dreams change, but the desire to visit this country has not. I’d only be getting about three hours on the ground ...
Watch movies on the Soviet-Afghan War Many movies focused on the Soviet-Afghan War or included scenes of the war. You can watch classics like the Kite Runner, Earth and Ashes, 9th Company, and Afghan Breakdown. If you prefer, you can watch newer ones like Leaving Afghanistan. ...