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Blowing Up Doors
In In Kuwait, there is a training site where soldiers learn how to open doors. Since much of their work involves acting on tips from...
Merry Christmas to American Soldiers from an Exiled Afghan Journalist
A message received from our friend Amin Wahidi, a writer an educational TV producer from Afghanistan, who now lives in a refugee shelter...
Kamels in Kuwait
There are numerous training facilities in Kuwait, the initial staging area for many American troops who spend some time there acclimating...
Dangerous Iraq
Evan felt the huge explosion while in his barracks and knew it was something terrible. His squad rushed to the scene, but nothing was...
The Trouble With Afghanistan
The multiple failures following the West’s support of a mujahedeen insurgency against the USSR invasion of Afghanistan should be an...
Fragments from War by EM
Our correspondent has not been in touch much recently. From incomplete news media reports, we know there have been assaults in his area....
Sick in Iraq by EM
Searching for mines in Afghanistan c. 2004 Unfortunately, I am sick again, and much worse this time. Had to go get the medics up last...
Bombs Away by EM
While on a recent mission our correspondent’s squad received a call from the Iraqi police that they had discovered a team of criminals...
KABUL AT NIGHT
Kabul at night. It was the first time I had been out driving at night. These were the “danger hours,” when westerners were sternly warned...