FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria and correspondent Martin Smith offer harrowing on-the-ground reporting from the deadliest battlefield in the mountains of Afghanistan and follow the trail to the militants’ havens deep inside the Pakistani tribal areas, probing some of the most urgent foreign policy challenges facing the next president.
“The War Briefing” begins in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, where FRONTLINE embedded with Bravo Company, a unit posted on one of Afghanistan’s deadliest fronts. Bravo Company comes under fire almost daily. Attacks have reached an all-time high, now making Afghanistan a deadlier battlefield than Iraq. Top U.S. commanders concede that the next president will inherit a situation that has deteriorated markedly over the last two years.
“The next president will face a situation where, in the next year or two, he will have to make the decision that faced the Soviets in 1988 — either to massively reinforce and to wage a war very aggressively or to get out,” says Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit. “That’s the inheritance of the next president.”
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Watch it Tuesday, October 28th at 9pm on KUAT6 and HD
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