The toughest fight for U.S. troops in post-Saddam Iraq was the campaign against improvised explosive devices and related technology
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Pinned Down in Hue
After enemy forces stormed the city, U.S. Marines were dispatched to relieve a besieged American base
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Power of the Pardon
The intricacies behind the American presidency’s most imperial perquisite.
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F-104C Starfighter: “The Missile With a Man in It”
In December 1951, after Lockheed Corp. aircraft designer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson returned from meetings […]
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Valor | Leo Thorsness
Medal of Honor recipient, then prisoner of war. In spring 1967, Maj. Leo Keith […]
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CWT Today- December 2010
Site of War’s Largest Cavalry Battle Expands by 782 Acres Thanks to history-minded Culpeper […]
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Everyman’s Gun–The AK-47
How Cold War politics made the AK-47 the world’s most ubiquitous gun. Plus—Fidel, Saddam, […]
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Revolution Unleashed
In the 1950s, Algerian rebels fought the French for independence, losing nearly every battle, […]
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Why We Won’t Give Up Torture
Some 150 years ago, Western armies all but abandoned torture. It has returned with […]
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Books in Brief | In the Tomb of the Soul
In the Tomb of the Soul, Herb Meyer, Bilbo Books Publishing, 2017, $15 For […]