Trouble at high levels: mountain warfare is not the only thing slowing down the Army. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Vest, Jason
LAST FALL I INTERVIEWED A number of current and former CIA officers who worked the Pakistan-Afghanistan border during the days of the mujahideen's fight against the Soviets. I also spoke with current and former military officers with combat experience in Vietnam, the Gulf War, or the Balkans.
The war in Afghanistan was in its earliest stages then, and most of the people I interviewed asked me to keep their comments off the record for the time being, "hoping against hope," as one put it, "that this will all work out." Yet the general sense among them was one of ...
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