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		<title>History Is Written by the Victor. Finally.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military is pretty good at honoring its history, with statues, memorials and that kind of thing. Heck, there’s even an American Battle Monuments Commission, which says it “commemorates the service, achievements, and sacrifice of U.S. armed forces.” Not sure what they’re going to think of the Department of the Interior’s plan to honor the several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who killed U.S. Army Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and his 262 men at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25 and 26, 1876. As the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument’s website says: Toward the end of the fight, soldiers, some on foot others on horseback, broke out in a desperate attempt to get away. All were pulled down and killed in a matter of minutes. The warriors quickly rushed to the top of the hill, cutting, clubbing, and stabbing the last of the wounded. Superior numbers and overwhelming firepower brought the Custer portion of the Battle of the Little Bighorn to a close. The battle marked “one of the Indians’ last armed efforts to preserve their way of life.” The main memorial in the Montana park atop Last Stand Hill celebrates Custer’s 7th Cavalry. But in recent years, an Indian memorial, and markers of where Indian warriors fell during the battle, have been added (the federal government changed the park&#8217;s name, from Custer Battlefield National Monument, in 1991). Now the National Park Service wants to fill 12 blank granite panels – 44 inches high and up to 91 inches wide – with engravings at the Native American Memorial site on the battlefield. “The contractor will be required to transfer the template graphic on to the surface of the granite panels through carving, engraving, sandblasting, and etching techniques on site without removing panels from existing mounting,” the NPS says. The park service says that “stone artist” Andy Dufford of Denver’s Chevo Studios is the only person who can etch the “government-provided graphics” (not included in the solicitation) on to the granite: Andy Dufford of Chevo Studios<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=108004&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IEDs, C.O.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Keith Boring spent much of 2006 and 2007, his second Iraq combat tour, as a battalion plans officer for 1-40 Cavalry, 4-25 Infantry south of Baghdad. While his specialty was armor – he is a tank-driver, after all (“There&#8217;s nothing cooler than a tank”), his second stint in Iraq taught him that in some cases, moola can be more important than M-1s. He shared what he learned in this November 2012 interview at the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,. Excepts: We were a light infantry unit, meaning, I came from a mechanized background so I often don&#8217;t think about us getting out of our vehicles. Our tactics were Infantry-based. We take our vehicles because we still have to use them to get from point A to point B, but we dismount and we would spread out. We would have Soldiers spread out around off the roads and so it would actually confuse the enemy at first because they had IEDs focused on mounted vehicles. They were very explosive but they were directed to blast straight upward to maximize the damage on a vehicle. Now, if you have Soldiers walking around spread out, one Soldier would have to step directly onto that IED in order to be killed. If they detonate the IED, the IED was probably meant to maximize effects against a crew vehicle of five personnel. If it gets one Soldier then that is just one Soldier and the rest of the squad is still okay… We realized it was really understanding the population; to recognize the difference between the insurgents who was just a local and why he&#8217;s fighting us, versus the al-Qaeda cells that may be there. A lot of those are actually fighters from outside of Iraq. It was definitely an intelligence-based war. At this time, what was also going on in the Fallujah area, out in the Sunni provinces out west of Baghdad, you had the Sunni Awakening where the different Sunni tribes began to coop with the U.S. forces there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=107983&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years Later: The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe for those of us who lived through it – or even if you merely witnessed it by watching 2000&#8242;s Thirteen Days – but the Cuban Missile Crisis turned 50 last week. That was the one time when the point of one nuclear-tipped spear toyed with the point of another nuclear-tipped spear – and even those of us who were 9 years old at the time could sense the strain on our parents&#8217; faces. So what did we learn? Bruce Allyn, former director of the Harvard-Soviet Joint Study on Crisis Prevention, is one of the foremost scholars on the topic. He has just published The Edge of Armageddon: Lessons from the Brink. He conducted this email chat with Battleland over the weekend: Why did you write The Edge of Armageddon: Lessons from the Brink? Looking back, I saw how extraordinary it was that I sat at the table with the key living participants in the 1962 missile crisis: Bob McNamara, the most influential U.S. defense secretary of the twentieth century; former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the legendary “Mr. Nyet,” and El Comandante Fidel Castro himself, when they met for the first time. It was electric — to see McNamara’s face when he learned something the CIA had never been able to confirm &#8212; that the Soviets had delivered to Cuba nuclear warheads capable of striking downtown Manhattan with 60 times more destructive power than the Hiroshima bomb. (PHOTOS: Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 Years from the Brink of Armageddon) The Soviets revealed that they had 98 smaller tactical nuclear weapons ready to obliterate tens of thousands of U.S. troops, had JFK authorized an invasion, which many were pushing him to do. It was shocking. I needed to tell this story of how we went “back to the brink.” Also, enough time has passed for me to reveal behind-the-scenes stories—for example, a detailed account of the KGB’s effort to try to recruit me to spy for the Soviet Union. I am not aware that any such account has been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89946&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nunn-Lugar No Longer?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/16/nunn-lugar-no-longer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Nunn left the Senate in 1997. Richard Lugar lost his bid for a seventh term in May. So perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that their landmark 1991 legislation, the Nunn-Lugar act that created the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, may be passing into history<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89144&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Diversity Counts in National Security</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/09/why-diversity-counts-in-national-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby R. Inman, Admiral, USN (ret.)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reality of demographics mandates a sharp focus on creating leaders from the burgeoning Hispanic and Asian American communities.  The history of Vietnam tells us we need to keep that same focus on the African American community. Leaders are created, not born, and a particular responsibility lies with higher education to ensure a sustained flow of leaders to meet this county’s national security needs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88259&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eleven Years On</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/07/eleven-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday marks the beginning of the U.S. military&#8216;s 12th year in Afghanistan. It ain&#8217;t quite the Hundred Years&#8217; War, but 12 years is 20% of this particular Battleland correspondent&#8217;s life. Eleven years ago today – October 7, 2001 &#8212; also was a Sunday. I was at the Pentagon, along with scores of colleagues, gathering whatever scraps of news we could. We&#8217;ve been doing it ever since. Four thousand and eighteen days. Two thousand and forty-four Americans killed, one every other day for 11 years straight. Historically, it&#8217;s not a lot, as wars go, unless it&#8217;s your son. About a half-trillion dollars. Two months after the war began, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told me this campaign marked the return of American military might to the world stage: When I took this job I had a visit with the President shortly thereafter, and we talked about the situation that a lot of the people in the world had come to conclude that the United States was gun-shy. That we were risk-averse. And that there had been a series of things that had led people to believe that, and that the cumulative effect of it was to weaken the deterrent effect of the U.S. threat, if they do things that are harmful to our country&#8217;s interest, and that that was unhelpful to have that deterrent effect weakened, and that I wanted him to know and we discussed it and he and I concluded that whenever it occurred down the road that the United States was under some sort of a threat or attack, that the United States would be leaning forward, not back. Less than a year later, 9/11 happened. President Bush and his war council met at Camp David the next weekend. Rumsfeld continued: Tommy Franks, the general, the combatant commander, proposed a plan, it was discussed, it was agreed to, it was put in place, and it involved putting pressure on the Taliban and the al Qaeda and recognizing that some of what was going on would be visible, some would<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88096&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon’s Correspondents Corridor Renamed</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/27/pentagons-correspondents-corridor-renamed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 40 years, a stretch of the Pentagon’s E-ring, where reporters maintained their desks and Pentagon press officers helped them do their jobs, was known as the Correspondents Corridor. There were humble, but tasteful signs, declaring it so.

No longer.  It’s been rechristened the OSD Public Affairs corridor (OSD as in Office of the Secretary of Defense). We’ve asked OSD public affairs to explain the change.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=86735&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History Threatens Repeat in Renewed Pacific War</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/27/history-threatens-repeat-in-renewed-pacific-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk Spitzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news is that there won’t be a new war in Asia. The bad news is that the old one never really ended. And with Japanese and foreign patrol boats firing water cannons at each other this week, it may not be long before the real shooting resumes. “The dispute over the Senkaku Islands is a direct legacy of the Pacific War. For many people, particularly in China, that war is still going on,” says Liu Jie, professor of history and international relations at Tokyo’s Waseda University. Liu was among a dozen historians who converged on Tokyo this week to take a new look at the 15-year conflict that ended — or seemed to — with Japan’s surrender in August 1945. The consensus is grim: nearly seven decades later, wartime adversaries share little agreement over how the war started, who was responsible or how to bury grudges that remain very much alive. The results are plain to see in the escalating dispute over the Senkakus, a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan. Fishing boats and patrol vessels from China and Taiwan have entered territorial waters in recent weeks to protest Japan’s nationalization of the islands earlier this month. (PHOTOS: Anti-Japan Protests Hit China’s Capital) In the tensest confrontation yet, Japan coast-guard vessels on Wednesday fired water cannons at Taiwanese fishermen. Taiwan coast-guard ships fired back before withdrawing. There were no injuries, but China has vowed to continue entering Japanese-controlled waters to press its claims. The dispute can be traced at least in part to the Pacific War. China resisted the Japanese from the early 1930s and expected the islands to be ceded to them at the end of the war. So did the Kuomintang nationalists, who had fled to Taiwan after being beaten by communist rivals. Instead, the victorious Americans kept the islands until 1972, then returned them to Tokyo, along with other islands southwest of mainland Japan. “The perception among the Chinese public is that China defeated Japan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=86691&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uniform Matters: If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/26/uniform-matters-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene M Iskra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are changes afoot for the women’s uniforms in the interest of “gender neutrality”. Of course, what this means is that the women will now have to wear headgear and other uniform items that were designed with men in mind, gender-neutral being a synonym for "male." At the same time, a review is ongoing that is evaluating women’s uniforms for “comfort and fit."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=84818&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better the Second Time Around</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/25/better-the-second-time-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Jeremy Hall pulled two tours as an Army engineer north of Baghdad – first in 2007 and 2008, and then again in 2010 and 2011. He faced challenges during his initial deployment, but was glad he went back for a second tour. He spoke about the change he witnessed during his two deployments in this recently-posted May interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth. Highlights: With the counterinsurgency doctrine, part of it is using the carrot versus the stick. The thought is, if I build you a hospital, school or whatever, that&#8217;s going to influence you to not have as much violence and so on and so forth.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the case. It doesn&#8217;t always work. Plus, when you&#8217;re trying to put the Iraqi face on it, and people don&#8217;t even know that the United States is doing it, it presents lots of challenges. The locals don&#8217;t really know. All they know is that they see a Turkish contractor or a local Iraqi contractor doing the project. It&#8217;s hard. If you publicize it too much, then someone can come in and just blow up your hospital, which happened. It wasn&#8217;t uncommon. Right as you were about ready to finish a school it would get blown up because you gave it too much press. You have to ask yourself the question, should you have done that project to begin with, knowing the poor security in that particular area?&#8230; I do know that we were able to provide equipment, needs and capacity that they didn&#8217;t have. A lot of the factors were people disgruntled, saying, &#8220;We need help here. We need this and that.&#8221;  We were able to meet a lot of those needs, so I think looking back on it, if we wouldn&#8217;t have done some of these things, we may not have been as successful. The people&#8217;s needs wouldn&#8217;t have been met as much, maybe there wouldn&#8217;t have been as great of an environment for people to reconcile. If people&#8217;s basic needs aren&#8217;t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=86284&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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