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Operation Hero Miles Large numbers of Americans have donated their unused frequent flyer miles to the Department of Defense to help troops travel home and spend quality time with their loved ones, without worrying about how much it will cost. |
National Defense
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Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus. |
Civil War Times
December 2003
Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
ifeminists
March 11, 2003
Glenn Sacks |
Iraqi Draftees: We Should Care About Their Boys, Too In the debate over the war let us not forget the one group of inevitable casualties in whom neither the war's opponents nor proponents have taken sufficient interest -- Iraq's young men. We should care about their lives, too. |
Searcher
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Blogs of War: A Review of Alternative Sources for Iraq War Information No longer are professional journalists and media conglomerates the exclusive information providers in times of conflict. |
National Defense
February 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Armed With Music Players, Soldiers Hunt for Insurgents Loaded with special software, music players help soldiers communicate with the populace, learn the local culture, and serve as handy tools in their tactical missions, such as searching for persons of interest. |
The Motley Fool
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Buz Livingston |
Help the Heroes To remember Memorial Day, give to a worthy cause. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is recognized as "Best in America" by Independent Charities of America. |
National Defense
December 2009
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Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries. |
National Defense
May 2006
Grace Jean |
Soldiers Sharpen Humanitarian, Diplomatic Skills In preparation for the launch of a humanitarian aid mission at a refugee camp in Iraq, soldiers are being trained to cope with the unpredictable hurdles that come with interacting with people from a different culture. |
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming. |
National Defense
October 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
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Iraq: Repeating A Painful History The British made many of the same nation-building mistakes in the 1920s as the US is making now in Iraq. |
National Defense
January 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
White House Ordered to Retain Backups in E-Mail Case Corporate America isn't alone in facing scrutiny over data archiving policies. A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order against the White House, preventing it from destroying backup tapes that may include copies of millions of deleted e-mails. |
National Defense
October 2004 |
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence. |
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May 25, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Soldiers React to Blogging 'Ban' Are soldiers losing out on their first amendment rights? A controversy continues to stir over new rules restricting soldier's creation of blogs. |
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September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Downplaying Concerns About Overstressed Force Seeking to slow down momentum on Capitol Hill to increase the size of the Army by at least 20,000 troops, top service officials recently offered a surprisingly upbeat outlook on troop retention and recruiting. |
ifeminists
February 11, 2003
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Iraqi Women Brutalized by Saddam Before and after Sept. 11, politically correct feminists crusaded for Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban. By contrast, little outrage has been expressed over the treatment of Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Offer Translates to Good Business A donation of speech-translation technology to the military is a promising sign of the product's future potential. |
