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	<title>Battleland &#187; Ron Capps</title>
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	<description>Where military intelligence is not a contradiction in terms</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Listen Up, General Pittard.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to make a couple quick comments on the furor over Major General Dana Pittard&#8217;s blog post that soldiers who kill themselves are being selfish, and his exhortation that those thinking of suicide should just buck up and face their problems like an adult. &#8220;Suicide is an absolutely selfish act,” he wrote to his official [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74694&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not (Just) Another Reading List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Battleland colleague Nate Rawlings has done excellent work at keeping us all aware of trends in official Army reading lists. Like many veterans, I suppose, I have a shelf of books I own solely because some previous commander put it on his mandatory reading list. These lists are handed down as part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73780&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: The 7,000 Mile Sniper Shot.</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/update-the-7000-mile-sniper-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a few weeks ago about Marine Major Jeff Hackett, who killed himself in the aftermath of a collapse following his distinguished 26-year career. Major Hackett&#8217;s widow, Danielle was initially denied payment of Jeff&#8217;s $400,000 life insurance policy because when times got tough economically for Jeff, he missed a few payments. Recently, the VA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73694&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD: Weakness or Wound?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/08/ptsd-weakness-or-wound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the American Psychiatric Association is meeting in Philadelphia. Among the presentations in the “military track”—a spate of meetings directed towards practitioners focused on military or war related psychology and psychiatry—the top listed presentation is titled “Combat Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?” Based on conversations I’ve had in the past couple weeks with psychiatrists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73490&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Massacre: Rush To Judgment</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/14/afghan-massacre-rush-to-judgment/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/14/afghan-massacre-rush-to-judgment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few days, Washington’s, America’s, probably much of the world’s airways have been filled with commentary about the horrific killings in Afghanistan allegedly committed by an American soldier. Radio, TV and the blogosphere have been inundated with reports, predictions, and speculation—why he did it, what it means for the American war effort in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=68984&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP: Magnificent Valor</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/06/rip-magnificent-valor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1944, the focus of the American army in Europe was the fighting in Italy. Van Barfoot was a sergeant in the 157th Infantry, part of the 45th Division. The 25 men in his platoon, like the other 150,000 Americans on the beachhead, had been bombed and shelled regularly by German aircraft [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=68468&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When is it War?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/21/when-is-it-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were in Iraq in 2008, just after the wave of troops for the troop surge had crested with 160,000 or so American troops in country, you might have had a pretty good reason to think you were involved in a war. Three-hundred-and- fourteen American service members died in Iraq that year. They died [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=66953&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, IRAQ. May 2008 -- A pair of U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID, and an Iraqi Army soldier use a laser range finder to pinpoint a sniper's location]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>A 7,000-Mile Sniper Shot</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/14/a-7000-mile-sniper-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/14/a-7000-mile-sniper-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Hackett died in the war. He was a career Marine, a mustang who rose through the enlisted ranks to become a gunnery sergeant, then through the officer ranks to become a major. In Iraq, Jeff led a highly specialized unit of Marines searching and destroying improvised explosive devices (IEDs) before they could kill other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=66393&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Marine Corps photo by Sgt Michael A. Blaha</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Marines in Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2005]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Nobel Betrayal Prize?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/08/the-nobel-betrayal-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/08/the-nobel-betrayal-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, three members of the Icelandic Parliament have nominated Army PFC Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. On February 1, 2012, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Margrét Tryggvadóttir, and Þór Saari, all members of the Icelandic Parliament, sent their nominating letter to the Nobel nominating committee. This is, of course, their right to do so. But it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=65911&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Nobel</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Tick, Tick, Tick: Another Absurd Headline</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/27/tick-tick-tick-another-absurd-headline/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/27/tick-tick-tick-another-absurd-headline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Capps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media coverage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote recently about the press reporting on veteran-committed crimes as a trend of veteran/psychopaths returned from the war. CNN and the Christian Science Monitor were guilty last week. Now it’s USA Today’s turn. According to the bonehead editor who came up with this sensationalist headline, returned veterans are ticking bombs. Oh, and let’s make sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=64906&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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