PECH RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan — In this wild and outlaw region of rugged mountains, where fighting is a way of life, insurgents fire down onto U.S. bases dotting the river valley not from a single ...
About halfway through reading Wesley Morgan’s “The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley,” I drove south from my home in Dallas to spend the weekend hunting with a ...
US Army Sergeant David M. Pooler, of 1st Platoon, Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, scans the area across the Kunar River as he provides ...
KABUL, Afghanistan – Just months after pulling out of a remote slice of eastern Afghanistan dubbed the "Valley of Death," U.S. troops are back reinforcing their once-abandoned bases in the area — a ...
Wesley Morgan’s repeated trips to Afghanistan over 10 years, during stints reporting for multiple media outlets, have yielded a potentially seminal work covering the arc of U.S. experience there in ...
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Wes Morgan, military affairs reporter and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley joins Michael Morell to ...
The Pentagon is withdrawing its forces from the northeastern Pech Valley in Afghanistan that it had previously insisted was strategically vital to the US war, now in its tenth year. The pullback, ...
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KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces, with support from International Security Assistance Force members, began operations Oct. 15 in the Pech River Valley aimed at denying ...
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