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		<title>A New Way of War</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/22/a-new-way-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, we’ve been getting somber Pentagon emails telling us the name, hometown and age of every U.S. troop killed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Noticed something new, at least to us, in Friday’s release from the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul detailing recent action in Afghanistan. It reports on two enemy dead, which may be insignificant in the overall scheme of things. But what’s interesting is that both men are named, and that each was killed in what ISAF called a “precision strike.” Talk about having a bullet with your name on it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=108135&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the High-Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petroleum products are slippery fluids – in more ways than one – and it’s tough always to know if you’re getting what you’re paying for. They&#8217;re prime targets for smuggling, diluting and/or doctoring. We recently took note of a nifty Army operation to ensure U.S. troops in Iraq were getting the POL (the Pentagon acronym for petroleum, oil and lubricants) that U.S. taxpayers were buying for them. Plainly, as the U.S. increasingly turns over operations to the Afghan army, there is concern about POL problems there, too. So the Pentagon is launching an official operation to scrutinize Afghan POL: The Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA Energy) intends to issue a solicitation for Supply Chain Visibility Services (SCVS) in Afghanistan. DLA Energy requires a capable and reliable Service Provider to provide Supply Chain Visibility Services (SCVS) to include the inspection, witnessing and verification services of fuel products, its transportation and other services related to fuel and/or fuel products in several locations and border areas within Afghanistan. The proposed requirement is to verify that all Department of Defense petroleum product users receive and have access to products that meet or exceed quality specifications, such as ASTM standards. That’s the good news. The bad news? The contract could last through 2018.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=107761&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vetting the 34,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With General John Allen’s announcement Tuesday that he is hanging up his Marine uniform after 35 years, there’s a dwindling number of senior U.S. officials who know the logic behind President Obama’s decision to pull out 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by this time next year: &#8211; Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is headed out the door. &#8211; Marine General James Mattis, who as head of U.S. Central Command was Allen’s direct commander in Afghanistan, is slated to follow next month. That’s pretty much the entire chain of command – President, defense secretary, combatant commander, theater commander. It’s a safe bet that Marine General Joseph Dunford, who took over for Allen two weeks ago, was read into the decision. But that logic would also seem to dictate that Mattis’ successor, Army General Lloyd Austin, also would be up to speed on the topic. That’s what makes these exchanges at Austin’s confirmation hearing Feb. 14 before the Senate Armed Services Committee so perplexing: SENATOR JOSEPH DONNELLY (D-Ind.): General Austin, as we heard the president say the other night, he is looking to withdraw 34,000 troops from Afghanistan and my question is can that be done in a way that does not leave Afghanistan less stable. GEN. AUSTIN: Thank you, sir. Whereas I was not a part of the process that helped to generate the proposals for the numbers of troops to be drawn down and the rate at which they should be drawn down, I can tell you that, from having been a part of that process before, the things that &#8212; the types of &#8212; the types of things that commanders consider going into those recommendations really account for whether or not they can accomplish the assigned objectives and missions. And so I would assume that General Allen and General Mattis, as they went through that process, provided their best military advice, and I would assume that to be the case. But having not been a part of that, I cannot speculate as to whether or not – SEN. DONNELLY: How<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=107695&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>General John Allen Salutes&#8230;His Wife</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/19/general-john-allen-salutes-his-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine General John Allen – caught up and cleared in the email scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus – told President Obama on Tuesday he would rather retire from the U.S. military than become Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, one of the top posts in the U.S. military. “Today, I met with General John Allen and accepted his request to retire from the military so that he can address health issues within his family,” Obama said in a statement. “I told General Allen that he has my deep, personal appreciation for his extraordinary service over the last 19 months in Afghanistan, as well as his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps.” Obama had already tapped Allen for the NATO post last year when former Army general Petraeus’ affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, became public and forced him to resign from the CIA. Within days, emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a Tampa socialite, surfaced. She had gone to the FBI to complain about harassing emails she said she was getting from someone, later identified as Broadwell, concerning Petraeus. The email exchange &#8212; said to involved thousands of pages of messages and attached documents &#8212; led Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to put Allen’s nomination on hold until the propriety of the emails was established. Allen was cleared of any wrongdoing last month. Pentagon officials say Allen had been considering retirement ever since his nomination was placed on hold and his wife, Kathy, has grown increasingly ill with an auto-immune disorder. &#8221;For more than 35 years, my beloved Kathy has devotedly stood beside me and enabled me to serve my country,&#8221; Allen said in a statement released Tuesday. &#8220;It is profoundly sobering to consider how much of that time I have spent away from her and our two precious daughters. It is now my turn to stand beside them, to be there for them when they need me most.&#8221; Allen, 59, stepped down from the Afghan post Feb. 10. Panetta praised the longest-serving U.S. commander in the Afghan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=107618&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Three Minutes Out&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/25/three-minutes-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Nathan Strohm, a logistician, has deployed four times in support of the global war on terror: to Uzbekistan for most of 2003, to Iraq for most of 2005, and twice to Afghanistan – first from February 2007 to April 2008 with the 82nd Airborne Division, and then for a second time with the 82nd from August 2009 to August 2010. In this April interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he discusses his toughest day on his most recent deployment, where he served as a forward support company commander for 4th Brigade, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Excerpts: You come in and it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Wow! We&#8217;ve been into Afghanistan for seven and eight years and this is all that has been done.&#8221;… They knew all of the areas that were of concern but as is the case in Afghanistan, we don&#8217;t know if this was actually being placed that day, or two or three days earlier when they had taken this route the last time, or if it had been there the whole time and it had just gotten uncovered enough under the sand that the IED was actually able to be executed. They ran over the backside of a basically where a wadis went into a canal, that type of thing, on the backside of that as you are kind of going down into the canal piece itself. There was a pressure-plate IED. The lead vehicle was struck. It was an M1151 because we didn&#8217;t have enough armored vehicles to have everybody have an Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles or an military All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV), which is a much safer vehicle with a &#8216;V’&#8217; hull. The squad leader was the vehicle truck commander for that one. Basically the front half all the way to his seat and just between where the front door and back door was on his side, that whole front quarter of the HMMWV was blown completely off. He was basically killed instantly but he died of wounds on the scene.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90463&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With War Ending, When Should We Look for a Peace Dividend?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/24/with-war-ending-when-should-we-look-for-a-peace-dividend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winslow Wheeler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The defense budget has become such a pampered darling of the American political system that the most stringent budget scenario that most Republicans and Democrats are currently contemplating &#8212; the so-called “Doomsday” scenario &#8212; is so stuffed with money as to be historically unprecedented. Moreover, as Pentagon spending begins to approach the modestly-reduced levels it currently faces, we can anticipate a titanic effort by defense industry and many across the U.S. political spectrum to pump additional tens, even hundreds, of billions of dollars into Pentagon coffers. Conventional wisdom on these questions is so poorly informed as to the actual data that politicians running for both the White House and Congress make stupendously daft statements about the defense budget, only to be greeted by many nods of pontificatory agreement. Consider the data in the graph below. It shows spending for the Department of Defense (DOD) since the end of World War II to 2022. The data up to the year 2012 are actual spending, expressed in inflation-adjusted dollars equivalent to the year 2012—according to DOD’s records. The data for the years 2012-2022 show Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s approximate plan (in red), President Obama’s (in blue), and the spending to be impose by “sequestration” (in green). That green line is a result of Congress’ failure to come to a broad budget deal under the provisions of the Budget Control Act of 2011, resulting in automatic reductions in DOD’s and other budgets now scheduled for January 2, 2013.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90243&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soldiers Write…About War, and a Woman</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/22/soldiers-writeabout-war-and-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile a war book – actually written by a soldier – grabs you and won’t let go. The latest is The Yellow Birds, by Iraq war vet Kevin Powers. Nate Rawlings interviewed him here on Battleland more than a month ago, and over the weekend Parade magazine featured Powers, and his book, on its cover. There&#8217;s a special treat that comes from stumbling upon a soldier who can write well. It&#8217;s almost as surprising as finding a reporter who can do the same. Over the weekend there were two worth noting. One surfaced in Saturday&#8217;s Washington Post, in a letter to the editor, of all places. Army 1st Lieutenant Adam Swartzbaugh wrote from Jaghatu, Afghanistan, to take issue with Greg Jaffe&#8217;s article (highlighted on Battleland here) about the boredom and missionlessness U.S. Army troops feel as the war winds down: I feel it necessary to speak on behalf of the soldiers I serve with…Whether we are winning a war is irrelevant in my platoon. What do my men and I consider a successful mission? It is when we have done something, anything, to further protect the lives of our soldiers, period. Insofar as we are able to do this, my men will continue pushing themselves further and deeper in every dimension of the physical, psychological and spiritual — to the very limits of war, and to the end of life. Sunday&#8217;s New York Times featured a soldier in Afghanistan in – of all places – the paper&#8217;s Modern Love column. Women generally write for this weekly take on the trials and tribulations of the heart, but this week Army Specialist Kevin Farrell put words to paper. He wrote, as many soldiers have, about a woman back home, and their on-again, off-again relationship: The time came for me to leave, and I left. When I got to mobilization training, I figured something out. I realized that everyone belongs somewhere. Beautiful young girls who love fashion belong in New York City, at parties and bars, having fun and meeting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89890&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Converting the Taliban</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air Force Major Matthew Brown served in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as part of the Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK) Hands counter-insurgency program during the final eight months of 2011. A one-time B-1 pilot, his main mission was to turn Taliban fighters into law-abiding Afghan citizens.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89728&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Undercard Debate: Not Much Difference When It Comes to U.S. Interventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of smoke in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. It felt hotter when watched. Reading a transcript Friday morning shows much more consensus between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Rep. Raul Ryan. Of course, that can be a problem. No one’s going to vote out an incumbent unless the challenger can present a clear alternative. Yet on the biggest national-security issues now in play – what should U.S. policy be toward Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria?&#8211; there was little difference between the two positions staked out by the No. 2 man on their party’s respective ticket. As Ryan said on another topic: &#8220;It&#8217;s a distinction without a difference.&#8221; When moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News pressed for specifics, too often they were MIA. In some ways, it was like a high-school debate: Biden: The last thing we need now is another war. Ryan: We want to prevent war! But national-security daylight between them was hard to discern. On Afghanistan: Biden: We are leaving in 2014, period [that will no doubt come as a surprise to U.S. and allied leaders who are now debating how large of a force will remain in Afghanistan in 2015 and beyond. They’re planning on training Afghan troops, conduct special operations, and provide Afghan security forces with medevac helicopters and other military capabilities]. Ryan: We agree with a 2014 transition [to Afghan control of combat missions in that country]..We don&#8217;t want to stay…We don&#8217;t want to extend beyond 2014. On Iran: Ryan: They&#8217;re moving faster toward a nuclear weapon; they&#8217;re spinning the centrifuges faster. Biden: Our military and intelligence communities are absolutely the same exact place in terms of how close the Iranians are to getting a nuclear weapon. They are a good way away. Ryan: I agree that it&#8217;s probably longer. On Syria: Biden: What more would they do other than put American boots on the ground? The last thing America needs is to get into another ground war in the Middle East requiring tens of thousands if not well over a hundred<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88892&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Austin Tice, And the Tug of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Gibbons-Neff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, a friend posted an article — a Facebook post, rather — that Austin Tice wrote before he went missing. Austin is a freelance journalist, fellow Marine, and fellow Georgetown student apparently captured by someone in Syria in August.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88660&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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