Beyond the Soldier Cliches

US Infantry soldier PFC Matthew Sharpe, 19, from 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, receives medical treatment from fellow soldiers after two IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks during "Operation Clarksville" in Zhari District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on Oct. 9, 2010. The two house-born IED blasts occurring 5 minutes apart while US troops secured a compound, injured several soldiers and caused the entire platoon became "combat ineffective" which forced the platoon to evacuate and seek medical attention at Howz-e-Medad Forward Operating Base. US-led "Operation Clarksville" began in Zhari district in mid-October with combat missions aiming to provide security to the local population while clearing the area of IEDs and Taliban insurgents; parts of Zhari district are new terrain for US forces. Within the first 72 hours of the operation Alpha Company alone experienced 4 IED attacks, which is the main weapon used by the Taliban and the cause of 80% of the Battalion's casualties.

After 10 years in Iraq, photojournalists seek new vocabularies of war

About halfway through America’s decade-long intervention in Iraq, Ashley Gilbertson sensed war fatigue. The celebrated VII photographer, who won the 2004 Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the battle for Fallujah, noticed a difference, as the years accumulated, between the conflict he knew firsthand and the country as depicted in American public discourse.

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