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...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...
When the military told him in 1953 that it would discharge him if he did not renounce his father--who was suspected of being a communist because he read a Serbian newspaper--Air Force Lieut. Milo Radulovich said no and appealed. ("I could see a chain reaction," he said.) Radulovich, who later became a meteorologist, was made famous by Edward R. Murrow on CBS's See It Now (and in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck); weeks after the broadcast the Air Force reversed its position. Radulovich...
...wants Musharraf in power no matter what he does. There are even growing rumbles of discontent within the Pakistani military; some officers worry that increasing public anger at Musharraf may rub off on them. "Over the last few months, morale has folded like a tent," says retired Lieut. General Talat Masood. "[The troops] are not trained for this insurgency, they don't have the equipment, and they don't have the support of the populace...
MARCUS LUTTRELL (right), the sole surviving member of a Navy SEAL squad caught in a firefight with the Taliban; on Oct. 22, President George W. Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to the family of Lieut. Michael Murphy, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team...