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...flying F-18s, launching Tomahawk missiles and serving in front-line intelligence units. You still will not find women in the infantry or driving a tank, but changes in technology and in the very nature of war have blurred the front lines and the definition of being "in combat...
...Italy is a strange country," he told Time. "In any other Western country, there would have been at least a vigorous debate. Here, practically not a word." Still, a group of young Sicilians have been making some noise. Addio Pizzo (Goodbye Pizzo) is a movement launched in 2004 to combat the pizzo, or regular extortion fees, the Mafia extracts from an estimated 80% of the island's store owners. The group publishes the names of the stores that have resisted extortion, hoping that such publicity will encourage consumers to shop at them. With unemployment in Sicily at 16%, the Mafia...
...being made toward quelling the insurgency to justify a drawdown of the 133,000 troops in Iraq. The U.S. praised the naming of a new Iraqi Cabinet last week, even though it includes some widely mistrusted figures from the previous government. And even as commanders try to turn combat duties over to Iraqi forces and pull U.S. troops back from the front lines, parts of Iraq remain as deadly as ever. At least 18 U.S. troops died last week, raising the total killed since the invasion in March...
...Iraq, who U.S. intelligence believes is hiding in an area north of the city. In recent weeks, the soldiers and Marines in Ramadi have come under regular assault, forcing commanders last week to order reinforcements to the besieged city. In the past year, the Army's 2/28th Brigade Combat Team, the unit the Marines are attached to, has lost 79 men in Ramadi--yet the brigade's commander, Colonel John Gronski, says, "The level of violence remains about the same...
...Still overall, Eppinger feels that the public exposure of combat trauma has implicit benefits. "It's worse if you don't show it," he says. "I'm all in favor of anything that tells the truth and lets people know what it's really like. It's better to have the knowledge before you sign up." Even if the people who were already over there might prefer to forget...