Ben Brody
Contributor
Ben Brody has been photographing and writing about the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2005. His work is featured in The GroundTruth Project’s Foreverstan, Afghanistan and the Road to Ending America’s Longest War, and on his personal page, photobrody.com.
I was a soldier in a war I hated, and today I remember my fallen comrades
Every memorial day, I think about Wild Bill Wood, and also Danny, Frost, Carver, Riv, Culbreth, Spike and the other people I saw die, but never learned their names or knew their stories. I think about my own place in the world, what it means to be grateful to have been a soldier in a war I hated, and how that war changed me, how it changed a tiny sliver of my generation.
Remembering the fallen giants I served with in Iraq
Soldiers, doctors fight to keep spirits up amid drawdown in Afghanistan
Closing time at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airfield
Here are the signs that America's longest war is finally ending
Kandahar Airfield is unusually quiet and military contractors are looking for their next gigs. As Iraq falls apart, what will Afghanistan look like in a few years?
USAID’s $500 million dam project circling the drain in Afghanistan
The strategically critical city of Kandahar will soon be without electricity after USAID's epic failure to finish a dam that has already cost half a billion dollars.
The definitive glossary of modern US military slang
The past 12 years at war in Iraq and Afghanistan have given rise to an expansive (and amazing) new military vocabulary.
US soldiers in Afghanistan adapt to life further from the fight
Combat situations are the bread and butter of infantrymen, but US forces are learning to go without as Afghans take over.
In Afghanistan, 'force protection is the mission'
The measures soldiers take to defend themselves and their equipment have reached a new level as the threat of insider attacks rises.
Back to Afghanistan as America ends its longest war
Correspondent Ben Brody lands at Bagram Airfield, the largest US base in Afghanistan, to begin reporting on the US drawdown of troops.
Afghanistan's Zhari district struggles to keep the peace (PHOTOS)
An influx of troops has, for now, weakened the Taliban in this once-violent district. But how long the tranquil farming community can keep the peace remains to be seen.
Halfhearted poppy eradication program in Afghanistan yields inadvertent success
As an unexpected result of the government's eradication program, it's a bad year for poppy farmers.
A soldier's best friend: military dogs in Afghanistan
As the combat mission tapers off for Americans in Afghanistan, their working dogs find a new role.
US troops in Afghanistan: Packing up and moving out
Preparation to hand over US bases to Afghan forces is a huge undertaking for US troops.