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Hard-working Gurkhas

Nice video of Royal Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. I don’t buy the assertion that they have a “unique bond” with the Afghans, and they aren’t really aren’t “thousands of miles” from home — more like 1,300 miles. But still good stuff.  STR/AFP/Getty Images

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Nice video of Royal Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. I don’t buy the assertion that they have a “unique bond” with the Afghans, and they aren’t really aren’t “thousands of miles” from home — more like 1,300 miles. But still good stuff. 

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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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