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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham: Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Military Strategy, Army, Ieds, Mraps, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Oshkosh Truck Corp, M-Atvs, Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Humvees, Oshkosh MRAPS, Donald Rumsfield, Afghanistan War, World News
Reese Schonfeld

Even as we buy and produce new MRAPs, train the troops to use them, and look for ways to deliver them, the President is still attempting to define our strategy for how we will wage the war in Afghanistan.

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Push Into Helmand Triggered Severe Spike in Civilian Death Rate, Failed its Objectives

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Improvised Explosive Devices, Civilian Deaths, Nato, Suicide Bombings, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, Ieds, Mcchrystal, Civilian Casualties, Isaf, Afghanistan, Afghan Election, World News
Derrick Crowe

More troops are not the answer in Afghanistan. We need to lower the overall level of military conflict as quickly as possible, and the only way to do that is to sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops.

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The Hurt Locker

Will Menaker | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Ieds, Katherine Bigelow, Iraq War, David Morse, Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Reviews, War Movies, Movies, Entertainment News
Will Menaker

This film approaches the kind of unaffected, unmediated portrayal of war and the men who live within its strange, parallel reality.

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Three Updates and an Addendum

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, Al-Shabab, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Somalia, Ieds, News, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, T. Michael Moseley, Al Qaeda, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Every time Dan Rather was on camera, there was an elephant in the room --there is no question that it was Dan Rather who pushed Walter Cronkite out at least a year before he wanted to go.

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Who Delivers the News?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cnn, Bbc, The Chicago Tribune, Ieds, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Media, Mraps, The Los Angeles Times, Iraq, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.

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The Military Industrial Complex: Truck You, Detroit, or Tanks for Nuttin' Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mraps, Contractors, Afghanistan, Detroit Three, Gm, Obama, Chysler, Ford, Oshkosh-Truck-Corp, Marines, Military, Army, Iraqs, Detroit, Navistar, Ieds, General Petraeus, Dod, Detroit Bailout, Atvs, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.

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Probe Sought in Marine Vehicle Delays

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq, Marines, US Marines Corp, Pentagon, Blast-Resistant Vehicles, Humvees, Ieds, Armored Vehicles, Congressional Probe, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of ...

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Thompson: Iraqi Insurgents "A Bunch Of Kids With IEDs"

CNN | Peter Hamby | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kids, Iraq, Insurgents, IEDs, Fred Thompson, Politics News

At a campaign stop in South Carolina Wednesday, Fred Thompson said that the Iraqi insurgency is made up of "a bunch of kids with improvised explosive ...

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