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The Army and Marines are breaking, but we don’t care

Summary:  The US Army and Marines are breaking.  It’s a slow inexorable process resulting from fighting 4GWs around the world too long with too few men.  Neocon war-mongers, national leaders, and the general public remain blind to the evidence, so they can express surprise when the results eventually become too severe to ignore.  It took a decade to …

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News: “U.S. Army Isn’t Broken After All, Military Experts Say”

Important news, if accurate:  “U.S. Army Isn’t Broken After All, Military Experts Say“, Fox News (19 March 2008).   Of special note are the data they show in these nine charts. Opening of the Fox News story One year ago, as President Bush decided to send more troops to Iraq, the conventional wisdom in Washington among opponents …

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28 Articles: a guide to a successful insurgency against America

… or “What if bin Laden were smart, like Dr. No or Ernest Blofeld?” Summary Al Qaeda has not yet defeated us, to some extent because they are dumb as rocks. That is good, because so are we. Unfortunately, #1 could change at any time. Background Information For those of you who are not James …

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