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Military History March 2007 Randy Gaddo	Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly In 1983, the deadly truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon shocked the nation. Today it looks like a harbinger of global terrorism.
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Military History September 2005 Jim Dorschner	Douglas MacArthur's Last Triumph Conducted against great odds, the September, 1950 amphibious landings at Inchon rehabilitated the U.S. military's tarnished post-World War II image -- and perhaps General MacArthur's, too.
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Aviation History November 2005 E.R. Johnson	Fourteenth Air Force: Heir to the Flying Tigers Against seemingly overwhelming odds, the diminutive Fourteenth Air Force held the line against the Japanese in China during World War II.
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National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Benghazi Attack Puts Spotlight on Marine Embassy Guards When the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was overrun on Sept. 11, public outcry erupted over whether security at the installation was sufficient.
Aviation History January 2007 Otto Kreisher	The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War's early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict's end.
Parameters Summer 2004 William E. Rapp	Past its Prime? The Future of the US-Japan Alliance Over the next two to three decades, Japan will liberalize and expand its security posture in broad ways long sought by the United States, but at the same time will increasingly desire to chart its own course in foreign policy.
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Aviation History July 2007 Don Hollway	World War II: The Cactus Air Force Fought at Guadalcanal In 1942, a small group of die-hard aviators fended off Japanese invaders at Guadalcanal, code-named 'Cactus.'
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Parameters Autumn 2007 Richard Halloran	Strategic Communication For years, America has struggled to persuade people to accept its ideas, policies and course of action.
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Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon	The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established.
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National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Seek to Recapture Their Lost Sea-Warfare Skills "Dawn Blitz 2011," was a simulation of what it could be like to deploy a Marine Expeditionary Brigade force of up to 17,000, entirely from ships.
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National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	While Still at War, Services Brood Over `What's Next?' The business of planning for the future indeed can be scary, especially when it comes to predicting when and where the nation will fight the next war.
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National Defense August 2005 Harold Kennedy	22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit Prepares to Deploy An estimated 600 combat-armed Leathernecks and sailors from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are scheduled early this month to prowl through the streets and waterways of Savannah, Ga., as part of an intense training regimen that almost certainly will lead to deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Parameters Autumn 2005	Editor's Shelf Book recommendations: Walter Ford Carter and Terry Golway's No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy... John A. Glusman's Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945... etc.
BusinessWeek April 25, 2005 Brian Bremner	Why Japan And China Are Squaring Off Japan and China are locked in a fierce contest for economic and diplomatic leadership in Asia. Trends indicate that China will move forward in a leadership role.
National Defense July 2005 Harold Kennedy	Marines Seek Better Training, Gear for Urban Combat The U.S. Marine Corps is shifting its emphasis to preparing Marines to fight in urban areas, in addition to deserts, mountains and jungles.
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Reason December 2004 Eric L. Muller	Indefensible Internment The book In Defense of Internment: The Case for `Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, by Michelle Malkin advocates such measures as allowing law enforcement and airport security to take account of ethnicity, and barring Muslims from serving in combat roles in the Middle East.
Aviation History September 2006 John W. Whitman	Japan's Fatally Flawed Air Forces in World War II Japan entered World War II with two well-trained air organizations, but no long-range plan on how to keep them flying.