You might like Left Right ‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh Mazang gorge. In the first Anglo-Afghan War it was the site of a crucial skirmish and hasty retreat by badly outnumbered British cavalry Simon Norfolk 2011 Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draught horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras. Simon Norfolk 2011 Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army Simon Norfolk 2011 The future leadership of the Afghan Air Force with Maj. Jason A. Church of the US Marines who is training and funding them. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad. Simon Norfolk 2011 Kandahar Air Field. Simon Norfolk 2011 Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand. Simon Norfolk 2011 Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion. Simon Norfolk 2011 A storage yard at Kandahar Air Field looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’. Simon Norfolk 2011 Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck. Simon Norfolk 2011 One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things Simon Norfolk 2011
