The release of thousands of pages of sensitive United States military logs about the Afghanistan war has revealed a lot about combat operations, civilian casualties and friendly-fire incidents.
The documents released by Wikileaks, an international organisation based in Sweden that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents, gives a rare insight into the real war in Afghanistan.
The sheer volume of material _ there's 92 000 documents _ means it will take analysts some time to digest the material and determine what it says about the conflict that is almost nine...