Operation First Light | Afghanistan 2012
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Today’s view from the ground: Tere Zayi and Khost, Afghanistan A day’s journey among the southern ridges of the Safed Koh can easily seem like a month, a year, or any longer cycle of the Earth’s gentle rhythm. The hours of daylight, shortened by the ascendant winter, cannot be wasted and yet somehow seem to linger beyond measure, as if the time of humankind is hastening to keep up…
Today’s view from the ground: Sabari and Khost, Afghanistan A quartet of soldiers was playing basketball as the sun rose over the combat outpost in Sabari. The night had been quiet in the normally restive area, a testament to the coming winter and the frost forming over pitched battles for the strategic swath of highlands in the north of Khost province. The golfing sergeant was back at his tee, preparing…
“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today’s view from the ground: Tere Zayi, Afghanistan don’t think Rand McNally ever spent time out here,” said Rafe as he, Mahfuz, and Oscar joined the serpentine queue of Kuchi walking along the base of the mountains. “This whole part of the…
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. Wars of poverty are fought to map change.” – Muhammad Ali Today’s view from the ground: Tere Zayi and Sabari, Afghanistan The great conquerors of history have all employed their most brilliant strategies to bring the wild eastern reaches of Afghanistan under their power. Alexander the Great planned total destruction. Genghis Khan attempted to fracture a unified opposition. Tamerlane won over nomadic…
“The place is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick Today’s view from the ground: Khost, Afghanistan In the above photo, Oscar surveys diagrams of Khost province. Lt. Knight’s bag is at the far right. “You know, you might be interested in this thing I found last month,” Hugh said as he nursed his evening tea and watched Oscar grimace at his charts….
