Clothing the Afghan National Army

Published October 14, 2009

One of the most dramatic encounters I've ever experienced had to be my first face-to-face meeting with the notorious Afghan warlord Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum.

It was in May 2007 and, with my colleagues David Pugliese and Sasha Uzunov, I had just spent two gruelling days driving north from Kabul to reach Dostum's home base in the city of Sheberghan. Thanks in part to mutual friends from the US State Department, and the Turkish Foreign...