Word: combative
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...loss of soldiers in combat is “heartbreaking,” according to Lt. Colonel Todd S. Desgrosseilliers, also a Kennedy School fellow with 23 years under his belt in the Marine Corps...
...Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) that includes students from Harvard, Tufts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—getting it right is serious business. These students must master the kind of discipline necessary to lead soldiers—some many years their senior—in combat. It’s something Leonidas was bred to do. For these cadets, it takes a different kind of instruction...
...Ultimately, his precepts for ethical nation building on the personal level are simple: Make yourself optional. Wear a tie. Think twice before you pair that nice suit with your combat boots...
...Bremmer had become famous for wearing his elegantly tailored suits with combat boots...
...history, after World War II. By the end of 2008, the federal government will have spent $800 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (government accounts make it hard to separate the two). However, this figure is just the “burn rate” spent on combat operations, such as transportation, equipment, fuel, combat pay, and employing the 100,000 contractors who support (and are supported by) the war effort...