A heroic British Army medic who received a medal for her bravery last week recalled the harrowing experience that led to her Mention in Despatches — and the desperate plea for a peek at her boobs that came with it.

After years of fighting, it seems the West has finally found some common ground with the Taliban: Both find the Petraeus sex scandal highly amusing.

An unnamed US soldier and his squad were engaged in intel gathering and reconnaissance near a village in Afghanistan's ultra-violent Kunar Province when they suddenly came under heavy machine gun fire from Taliban insurgents.

The Times of London is reporting that Gen. David Petraeus will leave his spot as the head of the U.S. Afghan Command at the end of the year, not that anyone blames him. Petraeus replaced Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the difficult, thankless job in July of 2010 after McChrystal was fired over a Rolling Stone article; a search is apparently already on for a replacement, who would theoretically be overseeing the withdrawal of American troops and thinking a lot about how great it will be when he can retire and maybe play a little golf. [Times via The Daily Beast]

Secret-sharing website Wikileaks is preparing the "'biggest leak of military intelligence' that has ever occurred"—three times larger than the cache leaked by the site in July. What's in it? More terrible revelations about "abusive treatment of detainees," apparently.