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		<title>Cutting through War Fatigue with the Power of Ink</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME’s photo blog, LightBox, has published a stunning series of photographs of tattoos troops get to commemorate their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. That kind of body art is a little-noticed trend among the small percentage of Americans serving in the military. In fact, TIME did it to help shine some light on the growing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=60205&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Army Cpl. Paul Bell's tattoo he calls, "My version of Hell."</mediaCredit>
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		<title>Gaddafi Alive &#8212; Then Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera has posted new footage of the Libyan dictator who appears to be alive and in rebel hands. Later footage shows him dead on the street. This raises obvious questions about how, exactly, he died. Warning: the video is graphic and disturbing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=58890&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iranians May Have Consulted Three Stooges Script in Terror Plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How stupid are the Iranians? If the allegations by the United States are true, they hired a used car salesman in Texas to knock of the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and they also introduced the used car salesman to members of the Quds force like it was a cocktail party. The main character [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=58554&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over 700,000 New Vets Seek Health Care, Half with Mental Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three-quarters of a million veterans back from Iraq and Afghanistan who are now out of the military have sought medical care from the government, and more than half of those service members suffer from a mental health condition, including post-traumatic stress disorder. These are among the stunning numbers in a new report compiled by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=58222&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>The beginning of years of healthcare?</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force TSgt Tom Phillips, Aeromedical Evacuation Contingency Operations Training Instructor from the 381st Training Squadron, Sheppard AFB, Texas, directs an Air Force ambulance to the rear of a C-130 "Hercules" in order to transport simulated wartime casualties from the plane to a CASF (Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility) in order to continue medical care until they can be flown out of military theatre during Golden Medic at Augusta Regional Airport-Bush Field, Ga. on June 13, 2007. Golden Medic is a yearly medical exercise sponsored by the U.S. Army Reserve designed to provide a realistic training experience to participating combat support and service support units, while enhancing the overall training and readiness of Army Reserve and Air Force medical units. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erica J.Knight)(RELEASED)]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>In Sudan, 3,000 Troops, Heavy Armor, Choppers Headed South</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/23/in-sudan-3000-troops-heavy-armor-choppers-headed-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad news. Hovering over Sudan, George Clooney&#8217;s spy satellites have detected a massive column of roughly 3,000 troops, tanks, artillery, and helicopters moving from northern Sudan traveling south toward the rebel stronghold of Kurmuk in the Blue Nile border area. This is very, very bad. It suggests the strong possibility that the battles and corresponding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=57657&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>This is very, very bad.</mediaCredit>
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		<title>Michelle Obama&#8217;s Veterans&#8217; Initiative: Meat or Just Sizzle?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/19/michelle-obamas-veterans-initiative-meat-or-just-sizzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Lady Michelle Obama bounded energetically onto a stage set up last April at a Sears distribution facility in Columbus, Ohio. Shiny black and red lawn tractors stood stacked in storage crates up to the warehouse ceiling behind her, a backdrop intimating hearty manufacturing jobs and bucolic suburban lawns. Two days earlier, the first lady [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=57095&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Michelle Obama at a Joining Forces event</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[The first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, left, and the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. visit Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 13, 2011. The visit was part of a national tour to promote Joining Forces, a national initiative to support Service members and their families. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ben Flores/Released)]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>U.S. Staging 40 Night Raids in Afghanistan Every Night</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/19/u-s-staging-40-night-raids-in-afghanisan-every-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counter-insurgency is so 2007. Everybody knows that Republicans and Democrats have quietly agreed that flooding some dusty foreign land with U.S. troops is too expensive, and we can&#8217;t stomach the casualties any longer. All the cool kids are into counter-terrorism now. (Note to think tanks: It&#8217;s no longer hip to tell reporters things like, &#8220;We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=57082&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>I hope he's the right guy</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[U.S. Soldiers with Operational Detachment Alpha, 4th Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group interrogate a role player simulating a person of interest during a raid to capture or kill a high value target as part of Emerald Warrior 2011 at the Stennis Space Center, Miss., March 7, 2011. Emerald Warrior is an annual two-week joint/combined tactical exercise sponsored by U.S. Special Operations Command designed to leverage lessons learned from operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom to provide trained and ready forces to combatant commanders. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady/Released)]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>24-Hour News Cycle Means Follies No Longer Have to be at 5 O&#8217;Clock</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/13/24-hour-news-cycle-means-follies-no-longer-have-to-be-at-5-oclock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban on Sunday drove a massive truck bomb into a U.S. combat outpost in the central-east province of Wardak, killing two Afghans and wounding 77 U.S. service members. CNN reported that, &#8220;Investigators are looking at the possibility that insurgents originally planned to use the bomb against a high-profile target in Kabul around the 10th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56685&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Debate Shows Freedom Fries are Long Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP has been demonstrably hawkish for decades. Part of this is philosophical, but acting tough has also been reliable currency in the Republican Party for years. It&#8217;s interesting what 10 years of war will do. Politicians know which way the wind blows, and America is war-weary &#8212; ten-years-of-war weary. They are sick of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56454&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s Shiny New Death Trap</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/06/the-pentagons-shiny-new-death-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Benjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some government anti-terrorism officials worry that the shiny new Defense Department office complex just south of the Pentagon, the Mark Center, is a death trap. The massive, two-tower center is the new home for 6,400 employees of the Washington Headquarters Service, located about 3 miles south of the Pentagon. It&#8217;s part of BRAC and employees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56255&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Some Pentagon officials fear this building is a death trap</mediaCredit>
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