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In 2007, Patrick Melton was a military police soldier on his first deployment. With his platoon...
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P.W. Singer, co-author of the new book LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, joins for this...
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In November 2007, a destructive new weapon appeared on the battlefield in Iraq: the improvised...
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