This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended during Afghanistan withdrawal threads as a sobering look at why the transition to local forces was failing.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

VICE

Topic

afghanistan war

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Their youtube channel used to deliver incredibly raw and direct coverage of world events other US news sources seemed to be ignoring. Over the last few years though I've become increasingly annoyed with what content of theirs I saw, it's definitely changed. Their coverage of …

• For a fascinating insight into the disaster that was supposed to be the training of and transition to local security forces, I highly recommend the 2013 documentary "This Is What Winning Looks Like": [VIDEO]

• Vice news has (or had?) some actual journalists. They hired Ben Anderson whos Afghanistan and Iraq reporting was really impressive. Especially "This is what winning looks like". [VIDEO] If i recall correctly he made the footage when embedded via the BBC and (re)published it on …