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Capirrived at this combat outpost in kapsia province, less than a two hour drive out of kabul. ( gunfire ) soon to find a machine gunner opening fire on advancing taliban militants in the valley below, triggering a firefightnig between the taliban and a combination of afghan soldiers and local residents who have taken up arms. ( gunfire ) the frontline is so fluid we're told that taliban militants overran the outpost just last night, reaching an area half mile behind us before being pushed back by afghan governmenf mile behind us before being forces and local militias. as we have been here our...

Anything and everything that can be burned was thrown into these -- the trash dump and coated in diesel fuel and lit on fire. >> in eastern afghanistan, black says the burn pit on the combat outpost he served was located 150 feet from the front gate. >> if you were the poor sucker standing gate guard when that burn pit was lit and the wind was blowing it into the main gate, i mean, you would be standing in the smoke for upwards of eight to 12 hours a day. >> just breathing it in? >> just breathing it in. >> just one of 230 burn pits used in iraq and afghanistan. according to a recent survey by...

These chaotic engagements show that the direction and command of calm, competent leaders are crucial to survival. When warring factions meet in combat, it’s terrifying. And when the two sides are far from evenly matched, it’s worse. But safely distanced from the battlefield and buffered by the passage of time, those David and Goliath battles can make wonderful movies. Consider the battle of the Alamo (Feb 23–Mar 6, 1836). That one didn’t end so well for the Texicans making a stand at the mission. But that slaughter has been replayed on the silver screen more than once, the latest in 2...

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Link Copied The soldiers living in the concrete maze of Combat Outpost (COP) Michigan treated the Taliban fire that poured in from the mountains as though it were weather: Bursts of machine-gun bullets were akin to drizzle, volleys of rocket-propelled grenades more like heavy rain. “It might not be worth going out into that,” a tall, blond soldier remarked to a colleague, after the thump of an explosion on the compound kicked off a firefight as the outpost’s mortars shot back into the cloud-draped hills. By the time a jet dropped a bomb on one of the insurgent positions, the attack had ...