Long hot days and short, lonely nights,each day is just the same.Time is slowly passing by. No news from home, no books to read,nothing but the Continue Reading
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Operation Mountain Storm 2004: The Forgotten Female Searchers
A surprise mandatory meeting was held for all the female service members, officers, and enlisted alike, already deployed with the 22nd Marine Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 2)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 17, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 1)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 16, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Afghanistan: The Price of War is a Piece of You
by Martin Jones In the graveyard of empires, experiences varied wildly - the year, the unit, the province, the problem, the strategy, and the Continue Reading
Please, Thank Those Who Gave All, Not Me
After years of hearing "Thank you for your service" a thousand times from friends and strangers, the final straw for me came from the most unlikely of Continue Reading
We Don’t Talk About the Women of Afghanistan
We don’t talk about the women of Afghanistan oh, no, no, no! We don’t talk about the women- But! It was August 30th August 30, 2021 It was Continue Reading
The Weekly Havok, Episode 25: The Meaning of Afghanistan
Of course, we were going to talk about Afghanistan. On the best of weeks, it doesn’t take a lot for me to talk about Afghanistan, so even more so now. Continue Reading
It’s a Zoo Out There: “Blue-on-Moo” Incidents are on the Rise in Afghanistan
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 22, 2019. ___ When you deploy there are several variables to understand beyond just the enemy. You Continue Reading