Designed to Lose: The Institutional Features that Undermine US Irregular Warfare
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The US military has an aluminum problem. It arises not from the metal’s rarity, but its presence...
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The Global War on Terrorism left the US Army with unresolved, pernicious habits. Foremost is a...
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