  Bookmark and Share  Sebastian Junger was on a publicity tour
promoting his latest book, “War,” when it was reported that the
1,000th American serviceman had been killed in Afghanistan. This
was of particular interest to the 48-year-old author because his
book and the documentary “Restrepo” are about the period in 2007
and 2008 when Junger was embedded with the U.S. Army in
Afghanistan’s dangerous and remote Korengal Valley. “Restrepo,”
which Junger codirected with Tim Hetherington, opens Friday.
Junger is best known for his monster 2000 bestseller “The
Perfect Storm,” but he has since written several other books,
and become a war correspondent covering conflicts in Sierra
Leone, Liberia and Kosovo. Lewis Beale caught up by phone with
the New York-based author, who was in a Seattle hotel room.  Q.
Given the news about American casualties, and that Afghanistan
is now the longest American war ever, do you think it’s
winnable?  A. It’s the longest-running war in part because it’s
a low-intensity war. The war h