Kings of War drew my attention to this amazing blog post in Edmonton Journal by their correspondent in Kandahar. Reading it, I kept asking myself, like KoW, “Is this COIN?” Whatever it is, it reminds me of another place and another time — Iraq, ca. 2005.
Dismounted and Disillusioned in Kandahar
August 18, 2008 by Jari
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