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• REPORT: Void In U.S. Strategy For Afghanistan (news.yahoo.com)
  Senior defense officials are debating how many troops they can send to Afghanistan and how soon they can do it to improve the deteriorating security situation there....
• REPORT: Report From A Forgotten War (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) (foxnews.com)
  To Americans of my generation and older, Korea is “The Forgotten War.” For this generation, it’s Afghanistan – or to be precise, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
• FEATURE: Two Iraqis' Different Paths Lead To American Cooperation (latimes.com)
  ...Two years ago, they allied with the U.S. Army and Marines in a civilian uprising that broke Al Qaeda in Iraq's reign of terror over this city once synonymous with the insurgency -- and in the process became heroes to the people of Ramadi and the American military alike.....
• FEATURE: A Hairy Fight (newsweek.com)
  
  Photo by Cpl. Chris T. Mann
  
  When Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway visited the dusty hinterlands of southern Afghanistan last week, probably the last thing he expected to find was U.S. Marines with full, bushy beards. But there they were, members of the Marines' Special Operations Command unit, known as MarSOC....
• FEATURE: Back From War, Back At The Wheel (nytimes.com)
  “You picked a good course to ride with me on,” he said. “I like to go fast....”
• FEATURE: Marine Back At Boot Camp After 50 Years (montgomeryadvertiser.com)
  "Out, out, maggots, welcome to Parris Island," he shouted. "Get out on the blacktop and don't say a word!"
• VOTING: In War Zone, Voting Is Not The Top Priority (stripes.com)
  The voting assistance officers assigned to help their comrades vote sometimes face challenges in convincing a deployed soldier that casting a ballot should be a priority....
• BOOK REVIEW: Iraq's Unseen Dead Soldiers Provoke Rage, Grief (bloomberg.com)
  The hardest job in the Marine Corps belongs to the casualty assistance calls officer, which is what military lingo tags those who bring the worst possible news to a soldier's family....
• OPINION: Russia And The New Axis Of Evil (wsj.com)
  With Russian tanks now presiding over the dismemberment of the Republic of Georgia, can a lame-duck Bush administration -- weary from its long drubbing by critics over Iraq and eyeing the exit door -- rise to the challenge Russia has chosen to pose to the Free World?
• OPINION : Will Turkey Abandon NATO? (wsj.com)
  Will Turkey side with the United States, its NATO ally, and let more U.S. military ships into the Black Sea to assist Georgia? Or will it choose Russia?