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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This cover image released by Random House shows "The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley" by Wesley Morgan, winner of this years winner of the William E. Colby ...

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Just months after pulling out of a remote slice of eastern Afghanistan dubbed the "Valley of Death," U.S. troops are back reinforcing their once-abandoned bases in the area — a hotbed of the ...