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 ...

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 ...

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 Afghanistan, northeastern Kunar province is the busiest combat theater in the country for U.S. troops. Afghan and foreign militants stage almost daily attacks. Ten U.S. soldiers have been killed in ...

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 ...

Kandagal, Afghanistan, July 21, 2010: Young villagers in Kandagal, just across the Pech River from Combat Outpost Michigan, tend to their animals as U.S and Afghan soldiers rest for a few minutes at ...