For a time the prevailing logic was to put as many US troops in the field with their Afghan counterparts as possible, like a constant parental presence monitoring for the slightest mistake. …
Read more ›Writing in Defense News, Christine Fox, a former director of the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, defends the SCMR review, says real savings lie in BRAC rounds and compensation reform, …
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Navy corpsmen carry a wounded man from a U.S. Marine Corps HO3S-1 evacuation helicopter to a hospital in Korea on Oct. 3, 1950.
From the archive: Sept. 16, 1950
Lt. …
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Book excerpt: “F.I.R.E.”
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