At Play in the Shadow of Ghosts
The Road to Kabul
February 18, 2012, 3 Comments

Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified wa ...

Manpower:
Flightline II: Parting Shots
December 26, 2011, No Comments

The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada's last combat hel ...

Humvee Dust Up:
Combat Close-Out
December 19, 2011, 1 Comment

For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operat ...

startinglineup
Hockey Night in Kandahar
November 8, 2011, No Comments

Of all the strange and unlikely pleasures to be found on the coalition bases of southern Afghanistan, the hockey rink at ...

Sights:
Basic Warrior Training
October 31, 2011, 2 Comments

Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-o ...

birdofwar
Flightline I: Afghan Air Power
October 11, 2011, No Comments

The newly reactivated Afghan Air Force has a long way to go before it catches up with its brother and sister divisions i ...

shoulderlook
Scenes from a Funeral
September 25, 2011, 2 Comments

One week to the hour after insurgents were engaged with coalition and Afghan forces in a fierce nineteen-hour siege that ...

Shedding Shells
Coordinated Taliban attacks test Afghan troops
September 13, 2011, 5 Comments

A fresh spate of attacks since we entered the country on Friday have contributed to making the past thirty days among th ...