Running To Contact, an Epistle from a Firefight

I’m re-releasing this piece from 2011. At the time I was working in the Mizan district of Afghanistan. Early on, the commander I worked with gave me three taskings; my acid test. I had to work out why the Taliban attacked our outpost every night but outside of small arms range. I was also working on how to undermine the Taliban throughout the winter. Finally, why weren’t locals accepting our aid for…