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...Geneva accords also prohibit occupying powers from destroying property, unless it "is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations." Around Tikrit this month, U.S. forces demolished more than a dozen facilities, most of which were private homes. Colonel James Hickey, 1st Brigade commander in charge of the area, told Time that every targeted house had been either a source of direct fire on coalition troops or had been used to store weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Hearts And Minds | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...catch-me-you-if-you-can orange. A librarian comes around with books, and lunch is on picnic tables, family style. This is where the prisoners get to come if they are good, meaning well behaved and fruitful in their interrogations. "We try to sell this place," says Army Colonel Jerry Cannon, a National Guard member who in his other life is the sheriff of Kalkaska County, Mich. Military interrogators mention Camp Four to the prisoners, who get a glimpse of it as they pass it on their way to the hospital or elsewhere. It is one more step toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Wire | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

DIED. MITCHELL PAIGE, 85, retired Marine Corps colonel who received the Medal of Honor--the military's highest award for valor--for serving in the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal; in La Quinta, Calif. With all 33 men in his platoon dead or injured, Paige single-handedly staved off some 2,000 Japanese soldiers, moving between machine-gun stations before reinforcements arrived at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 1, 2003 | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...duty offensive launched last week can quickly backfire. "We risk looking really stupid if we say that we're going to get really tough but we can't, and if those measures only push those Iraqis sitting on the fence over to the other side," says former Marine Lieut. Colonel Dale Davis, who served in the Middle East and North Africa. "You don't win hearts and minds by blowing up somebody's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If At First You Don't Succeed... | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Already the Pentagon has withdrawn space-age systems like the Global Hawk high-flying drones from the conflict, although they could conceivably be used to stop foreign fighters sneaking into Iraq. "Too much of our stuff is too complicated for what is happening in Iraq now," says an Army colonel. "All the smart bombs are worth nothing if you don't know where to drop them." What's needed is intimate knowledge of neighborhoods where the insurgents gather. And that's something the U.S. and its coalition allies lack. "The U.S. Army does not have a fraction of the linguists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If At First You Don't Succeed... | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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