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Wesley Morgan is a journalist who has covered the U.S. military and its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2007, when he began embedding with combat units as a 19-year-old freelancer. From 2017 to 2020 he covered the Pentagon for Politico, and his reporting has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other outlets. He is a native of the Boston area and a graduate of Princeton University.

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The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley

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