About halfway through reading Wesley Morgan’s “The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley,” I drove south from my home in Dallas to spend the weekend hunting with a ...

MICHAEL MORELL: I want to start by congratulating you on your book, The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley. I must tell you and my listeners that I found it ...

When we think of the war in Afghanistan, chances are we’re thinking of a small, remote corner of the country where American military action has been concentrated: the Pech and its tributary valleys in ...

Wesley Morgan’s repeated trips to Afghanistan over 10 years, during stints reporting for multiple media outlets, have yielded a potentially seminal work covering the arc of U.S. experience there in ...

The problems Kunar’s terrain posed came into focus in the early fall of 2002, when the Joint Special Operations Command swung and missed in the most serious attempt the command had made to catch Osama ...

After years of fighting for control of a prominent valley in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the United States military has begun to pull back most of its forces from ground it once ...

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Wes Morgan, military affairs reporter and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley joins Michael Morell to ...

In Afghanistan, northeastern Kunar province is the busiest combat theater in the country for U.S. troops. Afghan and foreign militants stage almost daily attacks. Ten U.S. soldiers have been killed in ...

In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we continue with a panel discussion that follows author Wesley Morgan’s discussion of his book, The Hardest Place. If you haven’t listened to last week’s ...

Kandagal, Afghanistan, July 21, 2010: Young villagers in Kandagal, just across the Pech River from Combat Outpost Michigan, tend to their animals as U.S and Afghan soldiers rest for a few minutes at ...