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'Robo-docs' May Soon Help War Wounded (www.military.com)
An American Soldier is hit by enemy fire in Iraq. A Humvee speeds him to a field hospital outside the combat area. He looks up groggily to see a robot peering down at him. "How ya doing, Soldier?"... More
Submitted about 17 hours ago by SpencerKent on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Songs for the Mahdi Army
(www.motherjones.com)
One day in Iraq, a friend picked me up from the house in Baghdad's Mansur district and took me to the Shaab district of east Baghdad. We drove past checkpoints manned by "Awakening" militias created... More
Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty on Iraq | 0 Comments |
The Pentagon: Where The Fat's At
(www.theittlist.com)
Will Obama have the guts and good sense to rein in this country’s runaway military spending? In These Times Contributing Editor Frida Berrigan offers a great primer on this crucial topic over at... More
Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Winning the War?
(www.prospect.org)
It's become common for neoconservative pundits to declare that we've "won the war," as Bill Kristol did the other day in a debate over Bush's eventual legacy. And of course we haven't "won the war."... More
Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Healing the Invisible Wounds of War: Diagnosis PTSD, Symptoms, Prevalence (www.emilitary.org)
Most people's stress response system acts like a home heating thermostat: it responds appropriately to environmental cues, such as wind or snow, by kicking up the heat. But after a... More
Submitted 3 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
How War Ravages the Warrior (www.13wham.com)
The decorated Marine served two tours of duty in Iraq. He was in the Marines for 13 years. After Iraq, he returned home and served two years in prison--for a home-invasion assault he committed in... More
Submitted 13 days ago by cdoherty on PTSD | 0 Comments |
Kilcullen on Afghanistan: "It's Still Winnable, But Only Just" (www.newyorker.com)
I wrote about David Kilcullen two years ago, in a piece called “Knowing the Enemy.” Few experts understand counterinsurgency and counterterrorism better than this former Australian army officer... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Gulf War illness is real, new federal report says (www.cnn.com)
An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. That illness is a condition now... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 1 Comments |
A My Lai a Month (www.thenation.com)
By the mid-1960s, the Mekong Delta, with its verdant paddies and canal-side hamlets, was the rice bowl of South Vietnam and home to nearly 6 million Vietnamese. It was also one of the most important... More
Submitted 17 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Helping children of war (washingtontimes.com)
"In 1943, my father just disappeared from my life. He was drafted ... [and] I was two-and-a-half years old and didn't know why my father left me. In those days, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles... More
Submitted 17 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
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