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 ...

PECH DARA, Afghanistan – A remote mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan was once dubbed the Valley of Death for witnessing some of the fiercest fighting during four decades of war in the country.

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 ...

Hammerhead Six is a hard, practical lesson in how small Special Forces teams won ground in Afghanistan by mastering culture, accountability, and relationships instead of relying on firepower alone.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Author and journalist Wesley ...

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 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 ...