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...When Colonel James R. Crider's 1-4 cavalry squadron got to Baghdad last May, their first 30 days were pockmarked with roadside bombs, shootings and grenade attacks. But the war stories out of Crider's outfit nowadays don't have much to do with war anymore. For the past three months there hasn't been a significant incident. These days Crider's unit has their hands full with conflicts of a completely different nature - the kinds of problems that child and social welfare services may be better equipped to deal with...
...often contradictory laws mean it can get trapped in legislative red tape for years, sometimes indefinitely. Better international cooperation is high on the wish lists of many an art squad. "The difficulty is convincing our European partners that we need to work together to fight this scourge," says Lieut. Colonel Pierre Tabel, head of the OCBC. "If these countries are not going to effectively control their art market, well, we can't do it for them...
...clear that we needed to change the way we were fighting. Iraqi officers and leaders told me we needed to get out of the castle mentality and get into the streets with the Iraqis. Petraeus' plan was to do just that, and it has worked. Michael J. Mawson, Lieut. Colonel, USAF COLORADO SPRINGS...
...clear that we needed to change the way we were fighting. Iraqi officers and leaders told me we needed to get out of the castle mentality and get into the streets with the Iraqis. Petraeus' plan was to do just that, and it has worked. Michael J. Mawson, Lieut. Colonel, USAF, Colorado Springs...
Michael J. Mawson, Lieut. Colonel, USAF COLORADO SPRINGS...