Best of 2012: War
Waiting for a Kill Shot 7,000 Miles Away
The emotional toll on drone pilots.
Paintballing with Hezbollah
A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.
Mitchell Prothero Vice 25min
America's Last Prisoner of War
The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.
How to Kill a Rational Peasant
On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.
Adam Curtis BBC 25min
Siege of September 13
Inside the attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
Matthieu Aikins GQ 30min