How the Afghanistan Air War Got Stuck in the Sky

— filed under: Current Events, Afghanistan, Wired, Blogging

Anibal Paz is nearly surrounded. The sergeant and his squad of 15 or so Marines are crouched behind the crumbling mud walls of a small Afghan compound taking fire from three directions. Hiding in the tree line to the south, guerrillas pepper the Marines with automatic weapons fire. From a cornfield to the west come more AK-47 bursts. Most worrisome, though, are the bullets whizzing in from a squat building in a second compound a few hundred yards to the southeast. These are sniper shots from a bolt-action rifle. Unlike the AK barrage, they get closer with every round.

The link address is: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_end_air_war/

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