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A torrent of U.S. government documents about the Afghan war has been leaked.
News reports emphasize newly-public details about the difficulties, setbacks, and mistakes that have dogged the campaign. But the insights the documents provide, as reported in the three newspapers given time to study the cache, don't appear to have major implications for policy.
Military historians will revel in the unprecedented access to unvarnished day-by-day field notes on tactics, weapons, and psychological warfare. But what strikes us most about the reports of these 90,000 documents from 2004-09 is how thoroughly the papers seem to validate journalistic coverage. Yes, Pakistan's intelligence service has historic links to the Taliban and seemed to be playing a double game. Yes, allied fire power often kills civilians. Yes, drone aircraft are increasingly important. Yes, the CIA mounts its own operations in Afghanistan. And so on. The details are new and colourful, but attentive newspaper readers already knew the outlines of all this.
This mass of detail will help readers understand the frustrations of this complex war in an alien land. But nothing here weakens the case that Afghanistan needs to be saved from Taliban fanaticism.

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