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• REPORT: Virtual Reality Goes To War Vs. Stress Disorder (signonsandiego.com)
  Iraq war veteran Patrick Barnes strides warily through a desert town, dodges bullets and grenades, and zaps enemy fighters with bursts from his M-4 rifle–all without leaving the San Diego Naval Medical Center....
• REPORT: Politicians With Children In War Zones (ap.google.com)
  View a list of those politicians whose children are serving overseas.
• REPORT: Gambling With An Addiction (stripes.com)
  Marine Corps addiction counselors estimate that more than 500 servicemembers and dependents on Okinawa may be battling a gambling disorder....
• REPORT: Sweating May Guard Against Exercise-Induced Asthma (themedguru.com)
  Sweating–the body’s naturally occurring cooling mechanism–also provides protection against exercise-induced asthma attacks, a new U.S. study suggests....
• FEATURE: A Tale Of Many Cities: Demands Of Urban Warfare Fuel CQB Skills (janes.com)
  Long experience has shown that where armed forces with modern technology are able to dominate the battlespace and once conventional kinetic operations have concluded, protracted asymmetric operations, often in urban terrain, are the hardest to win....
• FEATURE: Ordinary Marines, Extraordinary Valor (fredericksburg.com)
  They're old men now, in their early 80s. But in those fateful months of 1945, they were young Americans fighting for their lives on a barren Pacific atoll called Iwo Jima....
• FEATURE: Video Games: Combat Mission: Shock Force (gamesindustry.biz)
  With the release of the first Module for Combat Mission Shock Force–titled "Marines"....
• COLUMN: Consumed With Conflicts Against Terrorism, U.S. Faces Issues Of Big War Readiness (kansascity.com)
  When Russian tanks bullied their way into Georgia, debate broke out about what the United States should do. But what could America do?
• COLUMN: Marine Major Saw Counterinsurgency Strategy Work In Iraq (gainesvilletimes.com)
  An officer in the Marine Corps Reserve who completed a tour of duty in Iraq earlier this year told a Gainesville audience that saw firsthand that counterinsurgency strategy was working....
• COLUMN: How Might NATO Have Changed Georgia Conflict? (airforcetimes.com)
  ...Article 5 of the NATO treaty declares that “an armed attack against one or more of them ... shall be considered an attack against them all” and trigger a response by all....
• COLUMN: Iraqi Surge Was Keystone To Success In Iraq (nyjtimes.com)
  At the end of 2006, Iraq seemed on the verge of a civil war. Al-Qaida was inciting divisions between Sunni and Shiia Iraqis. The newly elected government seemed ineffectual. Militia groups roamed neighborhoods and intimidated those who did not agree with them....
• COLUMN: Why President Bush Scaled Back The Drawdown (dailynews.muzi.com)
  Bush plans to withdraw 8,000 troops around the time he leaves office on Jan. 20, leaving about 137,000 in Iraq for the next president to deal with....

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