Front 8, Under the critical gaze of their commanders, coalition fighters held in reserve practice quick deployment along a trench-line on the alluvial plane above the Kokcha River near the Tajik border.
Afghanastan, the forgotten land of perpetual conflict; the civil war fought over degrees of radicalism where victory for one side may secure peace at a price that drags the future further into the past and ignite regional conflict; the place where…