laststandonzombieisland

After 9/11, operations against al-Qa’ida were launched. The first CIA team landed in Afghanistan just 15 days after the attack and immediately began building the base for Operation Enduring Freedom. This canvas captures just one of the many resupply drops from a CIA-owned, Soviet-built MI-17 helicopter. The conditions were brutal and the supply drops were risky, but the painting is intended to capture the unseen efforts that went into each mission. Behind the scenes, intelligence analysts, logisticians, security officers, indigenous allies, operational planners, and U.S. military components worked diligently to pull off perilous supply drops.
From the CIA Intelligence Art Collection