Restrepo (Junger and Hetherington)

The War (Film) March continues, this time with a documentary of a company's deployment in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Combining digital footage shot by soldiers and the documentarians, as well as post-deployment interviews, the film provides witness neither to the tedium nor the excitement of war. Instead, it asks the audience to face the unrelenting terror (and frustration) (and grief) of establishing and holding an isolated outpost deep in Taliban territory.

This film certainly asks us to wonder why the Bush administration thought we could successfully fight two wars simultaneously when one was in this inhospitable and foreign land.

Highly recommend.