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...ruthless force and pinpoint precision of U.S. air power. The Pentagon's most celebrated tactic was its deployment of small groups of special-ops commandos to ride horseback with Northern Alliance forces and call in air strikes using handheld lasers and target-spotting binoculars. The combination of high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes in a jail in Sheberghan, northern Afghanistan. "We couldn't gather in large groups...
...friends to dinner and movies. "I spend a lot of time in cafes because coffee is cheap," she says. "I avoid talking to certain friends because I get tired of the questions like, 'Are you looking? Where have you looked?'" Delman has given up on re-entering the gutted tech field; she is pursuing grant-writing jobs for nonprofit groups and getting by on monthly unemployment checks...
After the initial stages of denial and fear, many laid-off workers report feeling unexpected relief. "It's like the pressure that mounts when you have a winning streak in baseball," says author Po Bronson, who interviewed scores of laid-off tech workers for his forthcoming book What Should I Do with My Life? "With each success you slowly become more risk-averse because you get more and more scared of failing," he says. Experiencing the career failure that a layoff implies is "ultimately liberating...