War correspondent’s reportage shows so much depended on a simple bridge

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Spc. Ian Gelig was killed when a suicide bomber drove onto the Tarnak River Bridge. [Photo from US Army 82nd Airborne Div.]For an idea of the complex command structure necessary when different countries form a coalition in wartime, look no further than a post by war correspondent Michael Yon who is currently reporting from Afghanistan. The Bridge, a story posted by Yon on Thursday, discloses challenges in covering a country known for historic British and Russian military blunders. What’s even more intriguing is how much capital rests on a simple bridge in a country where transportation is tricky even on a good day. Yon wrote, “In Afghanistan, there might not be another route for hundreds of miles.”

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