Richard Engel's "Tip of the Spear"

Evan Hill | October 30, 2009 6:36 PM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

I'm a little late on this, but what the heck. Richard Engel, NBC's chief foreign correspondent (whose career path I envy) was embedded with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley and filed an hour-long report, "Tip of the Spear," earlier this month.

You can view it in parts online. I've just finished watching part one, and it seems as though Engel will focus more on the day-to-day lives of the soldiers than on high-level policymaking. I suppose that's just as well, since often we forget about the realities on the ground. Click through to see part one.

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