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Military Personnel

August 16, 2015

The M-26 Shotgun Is A Handful of Violence

A young combat engineer with a shotgun blew out the “popsicle stick” support holding up one of the few targets sitting in an old trench. “Good job,...

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Military Strategy

July 31, 2015

War with China Would be Bloody, and Stupid

Sidney Rittenberg knows a thing or two about China. During World War II, he learned fluent Mandarin as a U.

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China

July 24, 2015

The American Who Joined Mao's Revolution

Sidney Rittenberg greets me with a faint, friendly voice in the lobby of his condo building in Bellevue, Washington. Ninety three years old, wearing a...

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Veterans

June 22, 2015

Four Years After 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

“I was told it would only be 23 people, so this is better,” Maj. Gen.

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Military Strategy

June 14, 2015

America Cashes in On Vietnam's Military Splurge

The Pentagon plans to give Vietnam millions of dollars to buy American-made patrol boats. It’s a huge milestone, 40 years after the bloody and...

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Land (Conventional Warfare)

May 22, 2015

The Iraqi Government Does Not Care About Anbar Province

The capture of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, is by far Iraq’s biggest defeat fighting Islamic State this year. Local police and Anbari...

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Terrorism

May 7, 2015

Somalia Says 'Don't Call them Al-Shabaab'

Gen. Abdirahman Mohamud Turyare, the chief of Somalia’s Intelligence and Security Services, recently told Somali journalists to stop calling the Al...

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U.S. Intelligence Community

April 20, 2015

U.S. Agents Discovered a Nazi Spy Ring in China

When Capt. Frank Farrell and Staff Sgt.

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Military History

March 17, 2015

Vietnamerica: One of the Best Books about the Vietnam War

Vietnamerica isn’t just one of the best comics I’ve ever read. It’s one of the best stories I’ve ever experiencedâ??

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