On Sunday, several news sources reported that Wikileaks released 92,000 classified military records to the New York Times, the British Newspaper the Guardian and the German Magazine Der Spiegel several weeks ago.

The documents contain details about U.S. military operations in Afghanistan from January 2004 until December 2009. They illustrate "a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan" according to the Guardian.

The "war logs" describe secret units of special forces that hunt Taliban leaders for "kill or capture" without trial, a growing strength in the Taliban since 2001, including the use of heat-seeking missiles, questionable actions by UK and French troops, including a number of civilian casualty incidents and show that the U.S. military's public statements were often misleading.

These incident reports bear a striking resemblance to the stories told by IVAW members during their Winter Soldier testimonies.

The collection of documents is not a complete depiction of the war. It does not contain many references to influential events, more highly classified information, or any events in 2010 when the Obama Administration's new counterinsugurgency methods took place.

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, removed some material that might endanger local informants or reveal military secrets before sending it to the three news sources.

Bradley Manning, who was charged with leaking the "Collateral Murder" video on Wikileaks in April, has not been connected with the leaking of these records.