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McManus: A smaller, smarter military
President Obama has called a halt to the decade-long rise in defense spending that began after Sept. 11, and has proposed shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by about 14%. Congressional Republicans (not to mention Mitt Romney) say that would be...
Tags: The Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army, Baghdad (Iraq), Culture
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Book review: 'Westmoreland' by Lewis Sorley
Los Angeles TimesReading Lewis Sorley's scalding biography of Army Gen. William Westmoreland, "Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam," is like watching a slow-motion replay of an oncoming train wreck. The result of this collision is known: failure of the U.S....Tags: The Pentagon, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), U.S. Military, U.S. Army, Republican Party
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Boys' basketball: Kennedy Edwards is headed to West Point
Varsity Times InsiderKennedy Edwards, a 6-foot-6 all-league basketball player from Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, has committed to play for Army. -- Eric Sondheimer... -
McManus: An elusive victory in Iraq
With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission a success?
Iraq is still struggling even to ensure its own security. Its air force...Tags: Barack Obama, Civil Unrest, U.S. Military, Nouri Maliki, U.S. Army
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Ray C. Anderson dies at 77; carpet tile mogul
In the summer of 1994, carpet-tile mogul Ray C. Anderson made a sobering discovery: Although his billion-dollar business was the biggest of its kind in the world, everything about it was wrong.
That realization came after reading "The Ecology of...Tags: Natural Resources, Ecosystems, Conservation, Metal and Mineral, Companies and Corporations
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Norman Ramsey dies at 96; Nobel winner's work led to MRI machines
Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died. He was 96.
Ramsey died in his sleep Nov. 4 at a nursing home in Wayland, Mass.,...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Satellite Technology, Nobel Prize Awards, Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
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Obama's speech on the Afghanistan war: Draining a political mess of his own making
Top of the TicketBarack Obama's speech on the Afghanistan war tonight: What's behind it and what it means.... -
What they're saying about Obama's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Top of the TicketJohn Boehner, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Marco Rubio, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Darrell Issa.... -
Obama starts Afghan troop drawdown with 10,000 this year, 23,000 more before 2012 election
Top of the TicketPresident Obama full text of his Afghan war U.S. troop drawdown speech.... -
Encino Army reservists leave for Afghanistan
L.A. NOWArmy reservists from an Encino-based battalion are deploying to strife-beset eastern Afghanistan to take on a task central to the U.S. counterinsurgency mission: convincing Afghans to turn away from the Taliban and support the nascent provincial and... -
Want an Ivy League business degree? Helps to be an Ivy League grad
Money & CompanyMany Harvard and Wharton business students got undergraduate degrees from the same universities...
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