Everything You Guessed, I Am

On the rugged yellow-mud road from Kabul to Iran, seventeen off-road vehicles with massive tires were heading toward Iran. Ahead, ten of the most advanced armed helicopters money could buy for mercenaries flew in formation, clearing the way for the convoy. Higher in the sky were thirteen transport planes, and farther above them, more than thirty satellites had been reassigned to monitor the road ahead. "Can we take a plane? The straight-line distance from Afghanistan to New Mexico, United States, is 13,941 kilometers.