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Operation Rock Avalanche
Operation Rock Avalanche was a six-day, US-led offensive from 19 to 25 October 2007, with the purpose of hunting Taliban fighters in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. The mission also aimed to establish a peace with the local populace so that a road could be safely built through the area by the Afghan government. Over the course of the operation, a series of running battles occurred with members of the Taliban, as well as with local tribesmen. U.S. Army Paratrooper Salvatore Giunta would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during combat between U.S. forces and local Afghans. Background The U.S. had struggled for some time to establish itself as a force within the valley. Long considered to be a Taliban stronghold, the Korengal Valley was nicknamed the "Valley of Death" by U.S. forces due to the dangers associated with being stationed there, with sometimes as many as a dozen firefights per day. Spearheaded by Captain Louis Frketic of A Company and Captain Dan Kearne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that began when an Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom, international military coalition led by the United States launched United States invasion of Afghanistan, an invasion of Afghanistan, toppling the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), Islamic Emirate and establishing the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Islamic Republic three years later. The conflict ultimately ended with the 2021 Taliban offensive, which overthrew the Islamic Republic, and re-established the Islamic Emirate. It was the List of the lengths of United States participation in wars, longest war in the military history of the United States, surpassing the length of the Vietnam War (1955–1975) by approximately six months. Following the September 11 attacks, President of the United States, U.S. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban immediately extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
513th Military Intelligence Brigade
The 513th Military Intelligence Brigade is a unit of the United States Army and subordinate to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. Its mission is to provide "tailored, multi-disciplined intelligence and intelligence capabilities in support of ARCENT and other Commands, to defeat adversaries, promote regional stability, support partners and allies, and protect US interests." The 513th is headquartered at Fort Gordon, Georgia. History The 513th MI Group performed its mission of intelligence collection and counterespionage in support of United States Army Europe until its inactivation in 1969. The Group reactivated at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in 1982, spinning off the 201st and 203rd MI Battalions, and assuming its current mission of providing intelligence support to United States Third Army (ARCENT) and United States Central Command (CENTCOM). The Group re-designated as the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade in 1986. Elements of the Brigade including the 138th Avia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
This is a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival. __NOTOC__ 1980s 1984 * Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Old Enough'' * Grand Jury Prize Documentary – ''Style Wars'' *Honorable Mention Documentary – '' Seeing Red'' *Honorable Mention Documentary – '' The Good Fight (The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War)'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Last Night at the Alamo'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – '' When the Mountains Tremble'' *Special Jury Recognition Documentary – ''The Secret Agent'' *Special Jury Recognition Dramatic – ''Hero'' Source: 1985 *Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Blood Simple'' *Grand Jury Prize Documentary – '' Seventeen'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Almost You'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – '' The Killing Floor'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – ''America and Lewis Hine'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – ''Kaddish'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – '' Streetwise'' *Special Jury Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Restrepo (film)
''Restrepo'' is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger. It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for '' Vanity Fair'', in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. The Second Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign, PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo, who was a Colombian-born naturalized U.S. citizen. The directors stated that the film is not a war advocacy documentary, they simply "wanted to capture the reality of the soldiers." Synopsis After some footage of four inebriated soldiers shot by PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo a week before deployment, text is displayed that reads: "In May 2007, the men of Second Platoon, Battle Company began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Academy Awards cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Hetherington
Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British photojournalist. He produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads" and was a regular contributor to ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair''. He was best known for the documentary film ''Restrepo (film), Restrepo'' (2010), which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger. ''Restrepo'' won the List of Sundance Film Festival award winners, Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011. Hetherington won various awards including the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning, dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of Light_infantry#United_States, infantry combat. He is the author of ''The Perfect Storm (book), The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea'' (1997) which was adapted into a The_Perfect_Storm_(film), major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing. He covered the War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021), War in Afghanistan for more than a decade, often embedded in dangerous and remote Outpost_(military), military outposts. The book ''War'' (2010) was drawn from his field reporting for Vanity_Fair_(magazine), ''Vanity Fair'', that also served as the background for the documentary film ''Restrepo (film), Restrepo'' (2010) which received the List_of_Sundance_Film_Festival_award_winners, Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambush
An ambush is a long-established military tactics, military tactic in which a combatant uses an advantage of concealment or the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind mountaintops. Ambushes have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient warfare, ancient to modern warfare. In the 20th century, an ambush might involve thousands of soldiers on a large scale, such as over a choke point such as a mountain pass, or a small irregulars band or insurgent group attacking a Regular army, regular armed force patrols. Theoretically, a single well-armed and concealed soldier could ambush other troops in a surprise attack. Sometimes an ambush can involve the exclusive or combined use of improvised explosive devices, that allow the attackers to hit enemy convoys or patrols while minimizing the risk of being exposed to return fire. History This use by early people of ambushing may date as far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embedded Journalism
Embedded journalism refers to news journalist, reporters being attached to military units involved in armed conflicts. While the term could be applied to many historical interactions between journalists and military personnel, it first came to be used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage, media coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The United States military responded to pressure from the country's news media who were disappointed by the level of access granted during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2001 War in Afghanistan (2001–present), U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The practice has been criticized as being part of a propaganda campaign whereby embedded journalists accompanied the invading forces as cheerleaders and Public relations, media relations representatives. journalists ended being severely restricted from reporting and being embedded in units. --> 2003 invasion of Iraq At the start of the war in March 2003, as many as 775 reporters and photographers were traveling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario (born November 13, 1973) is an American Photojournalism, photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. In 2022, she received a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). Life and work Lynsey Addario was born and raised in Westport, Connecticut, to parents Camille and Phillip Addario, both Italian-American hairdressers. She graduated from Staples High School (Connecticut), Staples High School, in Westport in 1991 and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995.[4] She also holds two Honorary degree, Honorary Doctorate Degrees, one from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Humanities, and another from Bates College in Maine. Addario began photographing professionally with the ''Buenos Aires Herald'' in Argentina in 1996 with, as she says, "no previous photographic training". In the late 1990s, she moved back to the United States and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rubin
Elizabeth Rubin is an American journalist. She is a contributing writer for ''The New York Times Magazine''. She has traveled through and written about Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia. Her stories have appeared in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New Republic'', '' Harper's Magazine'', ''Vogue'' and ''The New Yorker''. She lives in New York City. Personal life The daughter of publisher Harvey Rubin and his wife Judith, Rubin was raised in Larchmont, New York and earned a B.A. at Columbia University and an M.Phil. at Oxford University. She is the sister of former diplomat and journalist and executive editor at Bloomberg News, James Rubin who served under President Bill Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department. Career Rubin started her career reviewing theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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