Khost Province

Seven Years Later

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – Outside the media operations center this morning, four Afghan workers on the base stared exhaustedly at a few large pieces of lumber, arranging the wood to form the basis for what appeared to be a roof. One of the men knelt over the arrangement and took a DeWalt circular [...]

U.S. Forces Spread Thin

The Salerno army base offers a window into the hard counterinsurgency battle at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Dark Side of the Moon

BETWEEN BAGRAM AIR FIELD AND FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – When I arrived at Bagram, a public-affairs officer named Chuck asked me what I thought of Afghanistan, notwithstanding the fact that all I had seen so far was Kabul. I told him that the place reminded me of the moon. Chuck laughed as he [...]