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...first full year the Solomon Amendment was operational, both the draft registration—which had been ordered by President Carter because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan??and the presence of ROTC on campus were major issues, though they mainly affected a core of socially-active students, who themselves found a sympathetic ear within the administration...
...After five years of active duty—featuring tours in Southeast Asia, Iraq, and most recently Afghanistan??the 24-year-old has returned to Harvard, now a sophomore in Leverett House, as one of a select group of non-commissioned officers allowed leave by the Marines to complete their degrees while becoming commissioned in a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program...
Albright discussed two “hot wars”—Iraq and Afghanistan??and their unintended consequences that the next president will have to tackle. She called the volatility in Pakistan the biggest unintended consequence of the war in Afghanistan...
...Operation Homecoming” takes an unconventional approach to the tradition of wartime documentaries. It’s not a political polemic opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan??—it’s personal.The film stems from a project, created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004, which called for writings about the war experience in Iraq and Afghanistan from soldiers and their families. The effort also held writing workshops in military camps led by such distinguished authors as Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason. Over 100 pages were sent in to the project...
...addresses a problem, it needs to do so in the most direct and efficient way possible in order to minimize the cost to citizens in taxes, inconveniences, and, in this case, blood. While some of the administration’s actions conformed to this principle—shutting down Afghanistan??s terrorist camps through military force and initiating intelligence reform—a sense of self-importance led the administration to embark on a very indirect, inefficient, and decades-long campaign to rid the world of despotic governments and radical Islam and install democratic regimes where either...