Summary: Why is it so hard to call air strikes in Afghanistan? Wired sent Noah Shachtman to Afghanistan to learn about the war in the air. Shortly after taking control of US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal put an end to the air war by making it almost impossible to call air strikes. He argues that the United States' enormous technological advantage in the air makes it easy to win battles, but harder to win the war. Every dead Afghan civilian sets the war effort back. But with enormous political pressure upon McChrystal and President Obama to accelerate the United States' exit from the region, can this new policy work? This week, Nancy Miller is joined by Senior Editor Robert Capps and Noah Schachtman to discuss "The End of the Air War" from The January issue of Wired.
