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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