Life Inside Little America in Afghanistan

Photos from a time when tiki bars and afternoons at the pool dominated the lives of Americans in Afghanistan.

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN | JUNE 26, 2012

The residents lived as they would have in any American town at the time. By the mid-60s, men dressed in coats and ties. Women wore knee-length skirts. They had dinner parties and picnics, where alcohol flowed freely.

Courtesy of Bettina Nordby

 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the Washington Post and author of Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. For more information about the book, go to www.rajivc.com