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The following is the “Really Bad News” for Russia and the Russian Military. It reviews the mistakes of the war to date. Also, the futility and danger of the continued Russian/Wagner frontal assaults at Bakhmut and the challenges Russia faces against...
by Verus
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on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 10:41 AM PDT
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It is not just the Republicans trying to play politics with Obama's negotiations to obtain the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Now some veterans from Afghanistan who were serving alongside him are ...
by Richard Lyon
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on Mon Jun 02, 2014 at 02:43 PM PDT
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As I read this news story about an American army deserter from the Iraq war seeking asylum in Germany...
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by DrSteveB
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on Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM PST
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soldiers in the Iraq War by allowing their most intimate phone calls with their spouses to be tapped under the wiretap act? Their calls were even passed around an listened on as a form of ...
by jthorn2002
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on Sat Oct 18, 2008 at 03:22 PM PDT
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Let me get this straight, we invaded a Country for No Reason At All, or if you are to believe the civilian and some military leadership a Number of Reasons that Kept Changing!
We're now into the ...
by jimstaro
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on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 03:34 AM PDT
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Newsday is one of the mainstream media outlets that has picked up the story about Margaret McMahon and Kevlyn Reid, two ...
by Randgrithr
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on Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 08:11 AM PDT
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According to the Associated Press :
Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting ...
by Laurence Lewis
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on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 11:52 AM PST
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Two U.S. Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in ...
by War Comes Home
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on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 07:02 AM PST
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Army medic Augustin Aguayo refused to load his gun in Iraq and then escaped through a base window in Germany rather than be deployed a second ...
by War Comes Home
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on Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 07:39 AM PST
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