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The battle for Kandahar is the end game in Afghanistan.

With General David Petraeus taking command on July 4,  the offensive is slowly, grinding to a start as the surge of 30,000 additional troops hits the ground in Afghanistan and the “fighting season” begins. GlobalPost is chronicling this critical turning point in what has become America’s longest war with a stellar team of correspondents in the field. You can follow these reports every day in a new blog we have launched called Dispatches: Afghanistan.

Throughout this summer and into the fall,  GlobalPost will stay on the story. Check, out the outstanding videography and narrative field reporting by Kevin Sites and the excellent photo reportage by Ben Brody. These two correspondents are traveling and working together to bring home the reality of this war. They are both experienced veterans of combat. Sites has reported from dozens of hot spots including Iraq and Afghanistan. And Brody was a U.S. military combat photographer before he joined GlobalPost. Their work is augmented by GlobalPost Kabul correspondent Jean MacKenzie who is writing about the big picture of the war and working with a network of Afghan reporters who are watching the developments and, through MacKenzie’s dispatches,  providing a unique perspective of how this offensive is perceived by the Afghans themselves.