Afghanistan: Inside the Battle for Hearts and Minds

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Shortly before the operation was about to begin, Ellis received word from the battalion planning staff that it would be delayed. "They said we hadn't done sufficient planning for the bomb clearance," Ellis says, "and I suppose they were right. The trouble is, there are only two American bomb-clearing units for all of Kandahar province. I managed to find a Canadian team."

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