Which story should I choose?

Choose one story from The Things They Carried that you feel best embodies the idea of “the war in miniature” and explain your choice

the prompt for that question is :

Elliot Ackerman, an American who has published fiction about his experiences fighting in Afghanistan, describes one of his scenes: “There’s a militia leader, the militant commander, the village elder stuck between the militants and the Taliban, and the American commander, playing puppet master to the best of his ability and trying to influence events on the ground. It’s the war in miniature.”