My Afghanistan war book THE HARDEST PLACE is approaching its four-year anniversary.
Since I’ve mostly migrated from Twitter to Bluesky, over the next few months I’m going to recreate here a long thread of photos that many readers have enjoyed scrolling through as an accompaniment to the book.
Since I’ve mostly migrated from Twitter to Bluesky, over the next few months I’m going to recreate here a long thread of photos that many readers have enjoyed scrolling through as an accompaniment to the book.
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I’ll post the best of them a day at a time, as I did on Twitter.
This is my favorite of the photos I took myself in the Pech, featured on the cover:
Maps of the early years (2002-2006)…
He wasn't exaggerating. Here's a map used by Marines in the Pech early in the war.
As you can see in the third photo, there were problems with this approach in this terrain.