US Navy – Aboard the USS Carl Vinson with the bunker busters.

• Washington Post: Mountain Caves Used by Taliban Latest Targets of U.S. Bombs

US Navy – Why the use of “kinetics” is not the way to win in Afghanistan.

• Washington Post dot mil: Euphoria Lost

Royal Australian Navy – Refugees continue to try to land in Australia.

• BBC: ‘Hijacked’ refugee boat found
  

Background – Afghanistan – An excellent history, from 1985, by the military historian John Keegan that covers the history of Afghanistan including the British and Russian invasions in great depth and describes which tactics work and don’t work in Afghanistan.

• The Atlantic: The Ordeal of Afghanistan