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ESSAYS / Winter 2008

Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah

By Alan Brody
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Winter 2008

Democracy is Not a Postcard

By Nicholas Schmidle
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Winter 2008

All the Country Will Be Shaking

By J. Malcolm Garcia
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Summer 2009

We Are Not Just Refugees

By J. Malcolm Garcia
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Spring 2010

The Granai Village Massacre

By Guy Smallman
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter doorgunner on the approach to FOB Airborne in Wardak Province.
Spring 2010

The Path to Yaghestan

By Elliott D. Woods
Canadian soldiers walk through smoke and dust at dusk after blasting an insurgent weapons cache in the Sperwan area of Panjwai District.
Spring 2010

Total War

By Louie Palu
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Spring 2010

Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful

By J. Malcolm Garcia
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REPORTING / Spring 2010

The Bombing at Bala Baluk

By Jason Motlagh
Sherifullah, eleven, and Abdel Basit, eight, stand on one of the upper floors of the Russian Palace of Culture, which was heavily shelled during the mujahidin civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal. Until recently, the bombed out buildings sheltered homeless Afghans and heroin addicts. Efforts by the Russian government to rehabilitate the cultural center are underway.
ESSAYS / Fall 2011

All That Remains

By Elliott D. Woods
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