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Obama's War

Ben Anderson embeds with the U.S. Marines Echo Company in southern Afghanistan to document the first military campaign ordered by President Obama.

In the summer of 2009, Ben Anderson travelled to the Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan to document the first military campaign ordered by President Obama. Anderson provides an inside view of what life is like for Echo Company’s U.S. Marines – including getting ambushed by the Taliban and hit by a roadside bomb.