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...steady stream of residents. Many of the best doctors fled Iraq before and after the war, but the demobilization of Saddam Hussein's army has left the country with a surplus of military surgeons, who are grateful for a hospital job that pays $350 a month. Their experience in battlefield medicine gives them the ability both to manage expectations and to improvise. "If a patient leaves the ER still breathing and not bleeding, then I would say we have done our job," says Qais Mohammed Ali, a thoracic and vascular surgeon. "We are not in the miracle business...
...hundred feet away, hidden inside a trade-show booth, operator Bob Quinn chuckled as he sat in front of a small remote-control box. His Talon robot, a product of the engineering firm Foster-Miller, wasn't on an actual battlefield mission. He was just showing off last week amid the Pentagon's biggest gathering for the latest in military gizmos...
Much of the emphasis at this year's show was on innovations, such as the remodeled Ford, that take soldiers a step away from maximum danger. Quinn, the robot-program manager, thinks the future belongs to those who will move humans even farther from the battlefield. Several of his Talons are already on their way to Iraq...
...more Native Americans died in bed from Eurasian germs than on the battlefield from European guns and swords,” Diamond writes...
...values cherished by West Point sometimes get twisted or lost on the battlefield. In Viet Nam, the questionable enemy "body counts" served up by senior military leaders--many of them academy graduates--"cut right against the integrity we were taught at West Point," concedes General Palmer, a deputy commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. (His much criticized superior, General William Westmoreland, '36, was a cadet first captain and later superintendent of the academy.) The Viet Nam War is an awkward subject at West Point. In class, cadets are taught that the military leadership was not blameless, but most subscribe...