One Year To Advance 12 Miles

A gripping - and often distressing - report from the frontlines of the war with record fatalities after a decade:

More here. Money quote from reporter Sean Smith's diary:

20/06/2010I'm in Dand district, near Kandahar city. I'm with the US army and we're supposed to go out at 8am to talk to locals, to do the hearts-and-minds stuff. The problem is that the Afghan national army who are with us don't speak Pashtun; they only speak Dari. So the Americans end up doing all the talking...