The battle of Wanat serves as a critical learning tool for military leadership, tactics, and operational planning. Taking place on July 13th, 2008, in Afghanistan’s Kunar and Nuristan provinces, this ...

The Battle of Wanat was an earlier turning point in the Afghan war in July of 2008. An American outpost was nearly overrun. Nine soldiers had been killed. Since then, the families of those nine killed ...

WASHINGTON — Former Staff Sgt. Ryan M. Pitts, a forward observer who fought through critical injuries to help turn the tide in one of the deadliest attacks of the war in Afghanistan, will receive the ...

Five U.S. senators, among them Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, today asked the secretary of the Army to explain the Army’s decision to overturn the results of an independent investigation into the 2008 Battle ...

Five U.S. senators, among them Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, asked the secretary of the Army yesterday to explain the Army’s decision to overturn results of an independent investigation of the 2008 Battle ...

The Army's official history of the battle of Wanat - one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war - largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and ...

source GAIA package: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410306230052_5675.zip Origin key: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410306230052 imported at Fri Jan 8 18:18:17 2016 Nine soldiers were killed July 13, 2008, during the ...

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Oct. 6, 2014, during RED FLAG-Alaska 15-1. RF-A is a ...

The Army's official history of the battle of Wanat - one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war - largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and ...

A firefight that cost nine American soldiers their lives in Afghanistan in 2008 is one of the most scrutinized of the 10-year war there. But now, the Army's final report in the battle shifts the blame ...