It’s the little details you tend to remember about war, snapshots of time that have a grisly habit of creeping into your thoughts and dreams years after your service:
— The deafening silence of “roll call” during a memorial …
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A New Truman Doctrine
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Military Mental Health’s Wins and Losses Since the Iraq Invasion
Looking back, 10 years after we pushed into Iraq, how have we done?
Let us start out by reviewing some of the improvements:
— Better screening for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), …
Obama in Israel: Running to Stay Put
President Barack Obama heads to Israel, Palestine, and Jordan for the first foreign trip of his second term…
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Trying to Put Iraq Back Together
Army 4-Star Lauds “Marines’ Aversion to BS” On Women in Infantry
Superb, objective, fair-minded article by Greg Newbold.
In particular – women have been successfully serving in combat for 12 years…152 KIA…over 1000 WIA. Women in uniform have been a courageous, effective, integral part …
March Madness Will Cost Businesses $134 Million. Why Aren’t Employers Concerned?
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament will cost U.S. companies an estimated $134 million in “lost wages” this week. But do employers care? Not really.
II. War By Any Other Name
Part 2 of 3
Once upon a time — like 10 years ago today, when we invaded Iraq — Americans knew when they were fighting a war. This may be hard to imagine from the vantage point of 2013, but citizens in long-ago conflicts …
Green-on-Blue…Trust
An armed Afghan soldier rides in Nangarhar province as a U.S. soldier walks the street, March 4.
What Iraqis Remember About the U.S. Invasion
The ferocity of the American attack in 2003 took many Iraqis by surprise.
Across the country, regime propaganda and media blackouts had made it difficult for Iraqis to get a sense of how massive the force gathering at their …
46%
— The share of Americans in a recent national poll by the Pew Research Center who said the nation has mostly succeeded in achieving its goals in Iraq (43% say it mostly failed). Reflecting the division wrought by the war, 44% of those surveyed said the nation was wrong to use military force in Iraq, while 41% said it was right.
Yesterday: Iraq. Tomorrow: Iran?
It was 10 years ago this week that George W. Bush launched his ill-fated war in Iraq. Will action against Iran be next?
I. Wars Without Suffering
Part 1 of 3
America’s wars are ending: the invasion of Iraq, launched 10 years ago Tuesday, is but a memory, Afghanistan is winding down, and will soon join her sister in the trash bin of forgotten wars.
Only the occasional …