Located in a valley at the base of three mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, U.S. Army Combat Outpost Keating was by all standards indefensible. Yet on Oct. 3, 2009, some 50 U.S. soldiers held off ...

The Outpost is an American war film based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. It follows the story of a small team of U.S. soldiers who battled hundreds of enemy ...

KABUL — A series of command errors set the stage for a Taliban attack on a remote American outpost four months ago, which left eight U.S. soldiers dead in one of the war’s most lethal ground assaults, ...

In the summer of 2006, four and a half years after the invasion of Afghanistan, someone in the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division had a bright idea. In and of itself, this was nothing new. So ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military investigation says command failures left American soldiers in an indefensible position without adequate support when hundreds of insurgents attacked their remote outpost ...

(CNN) — A former U.S. Army staff sergeant will be just the fourth living recipient of the nation’s highest award for combat valor for his actions in repelling an insurgent onslaught in Afghanistan in ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with "no tactical or strategic value" led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the ...

In 1986, I went to a preview screening of Oliver Stone's "Platoon" held for veterans of the Vietnam War. I was planning to interview some of them after the screening for a newspaper column I was ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer discusses the new film The Outpost with director Rod Lurie and co-producer and former Army veteran Henry "Hank" Hughes. Movie Interview: 'The Outpost' (SOUNDBITE OF HELICOPTER) ...

Most of the time, war is complicated — but sometimes, it is not. On the morning of October 3, 2009, the situation for 53 American soldiers could not be simpler, or more dire. Combat Outpost Keating, ...

In a new book, the CNN anchor tells the story of Combat Outpost Keating. The ill-fated American military base was in a remote Afghan valley, and on Oct. 3, 2009, it became the site of one of the ...