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Best-selling author and director Sebastian Junger says experiencing the existence of U.S. troops' experience in Afghanistan was like being "on Mars."
Campbell Brown sits down with the director of a powerful new documentary about U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
American soldiers fighting on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan are drawn to battle by the excitement and meaning it brings to their lives, says writer Sebastian Junger.
Sebastian Junger found him crouched on a battlefield in Afghanistan, fighting to stay alive.
Warlord's legacy
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CNN's Stan Grant on Slain Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud's popularity, greater than any living Afghan leader.
The year was 1963. John F. Kennedy was in the White House, a quarter million people heard Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., and a serial killer known as the Boston Strangler was terrorizing the city of Boston.
Firefights come out of nowhere and get intense in a hurry. So does Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden's new book about a 15-hour shootout in Mogadishu, Somalia. The tale starts with a Hail Mary, and befo...