Wesley Morgan

Wesley Morgan is a military-affairs reporter who has covered the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2007. A native of the Boston area, he began embedding with combat units as a 19-year-old freelancer.

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Chasing Demons

Portraits of a Vanished Army

While reporting in Afghanistan, Wesley Morgan photographed Afghan soldiers. Now he presents their portraits and probes the Afghan National Army’s collapse.

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About the Journalist

Wesley Morgan is the author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley.

His reporting has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other outlets. From 2017 to 2020, he covered the Pentagon for Politico.

Morgan is a graduate of Princeton University.

You can follow him on Twitter @wesleysmorgan.

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