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NYT: Eight Years in Afghanistan – How the American and NATO commitment in Afghanistan has evolved since 2001

Eight Years in Afghanistan – How the American and NATO commitment in Afghanistan has evolved since 2001.

  • See also related article, Report Cites Firefight as Lesson on Afghan War: “The battle of Wanat is being described as the Black Hawk Down of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three to one in a four-hour firefight that left nine Americans dead and 27 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of the eight-year war…The description of the battle at Wanat — the heroism, the violence and the missteps that may have contributed to the deaths — ends with a judgment that the fight was “as remarkable as any small-unit action in American military history.”
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