The Lieutenant vs. the War
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Ehren Watada refused to deploy to Iraq, calling the war illegal. His court-marshal starts this week, but it won't be the antiwar platform that he had sought
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NEW YORK An Army captain is going to court in an attempt to keep from being sent to Iraq. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, Jay Ferriola contends he resigned after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve.
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While some don't see much defiance, others see an unusual amount of tension surfacing for an all-volunteer military force.
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For a lieutenant who gave his last name as Mustafa, one of 2,000 Iraqi soldiers fighting alongside U.S. troops for control of this  insurgent-occupied city, the battle for Fallujah was personal.
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On Scene: A soldier learns to fiddle, while NATO tries to douse Afghanistan's fires
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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The president of the writers guild and his lieutenant are deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their rebellion over?
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Two gatherings in the nation's capital help point up the difference between theorizing about war--and fighting one.
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One is a Democrat who opposed the war in Iraq and now thinks troops may need more time there. The other is a Republican who long backed the war but now doesn't.
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A ruling this week by a U.S. Army panel could lead to the overturning of one of the largest courts-martial of World War II.
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WASHINGTON -- The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the US involvement in the conflict that President Bush's father fought in, World War II.
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The &quot;Art of War,&quot; the oldest military treatise in the world, tells aspiring generals to divide and conquer. For a certain open source operating system, this may be the approach needed to win the inevitable desktop battle.
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The movie &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; follows an officer&#39;s World War II mission to bring home one soldier whose brothers all have died in battle.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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A Marine fires on a wounded man in a Fallujah mosque, and the world asks: Was it a war crime? Rules of engagement. That&#39;s code for what US soldiers are allowed to do on the battlefield, and it&#39;s never simple.
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The story begins with one of my buddies who survived basic going on to kill interesting people in interesting places. Most of my group managed to go from Texas to Korea to work on flight lines and for more training. Somewhere along the way, someone managed to wander far off the beaten path. He ended up in Morocco and found himself a beautiful woman to marry for a few years and spent most of his time being chased by the MPs. Take one part Indiana Jones, add a heaping spoonful of boring and a pinch of action, and you have military life abroad. The smell of shisha begins there, and it doesn't smell like the Air Force...
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Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, carried out his orders, and declined to engage in public dissent. The end of his career is one more sign of the politicization of the American military.