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...adapting to the new terrain. As the 10th Mountain prepares to leave Afghanistan at the end of May, Colonel Howard looks back on what he was able to achieve during the period of the extension: A program training Afghan police that has given the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan a more reliable police force; a better relationship with locals forged in regular security meetings with tribal elders; and the establishment of medical clinics and schools. "Our last four months here have been the most effective," says Howard. "I think our national leaders have made the right decision...
Note: Exact boundaries and status of some recently designated provinces, including Nuristan (ca. 1991) and Khowst (ca. 1995), remain unclear. Several provincial capitals were changed during the mid-1990s...
Barikot lies in a strategic valley in the mountains of Kunar province where two rivers, the Nuristan and the Chitral, meet to form the Kunar. Nearby are several important mujahedin supply routes, leading from the Pakistan border to Nuristan, the Panjshir valley and northern Afghanistan. Last summer, when Barikot was in danger of falling, the Soviets mounted one of their biggest operations of the war in order to save it. Supported by scores of MiGs and other jets, and Mi-24 helicopters, some 10,000 troops managed to fight their way through to Barikot, but after a few days...
AFGHANISTAN: SHAPELY COUNTRY toppling at the crossroads of antiquity and yesterday. From the mountains of Nuristan to the mountains of the Pamir Knot, from the Paropamisus Mountains to the mountains of Qandahar, Afghanistan is assuredly a land of contrasts. Americans recognize that Afghanistan is the strategically all-important eastern bulwark of the northern tier of Southwest Asia, but only a fistful are acquainted with our unique indigent culture. Since the severe Soviet invasion of our nation, the rebels are eager for the Afghan-American friendship treatment. Let me introduce you to my land and its soil...
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