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GG What do you think the Marines thought of you?
CA: It's hard to say. I got on okay with the Marines, which hopefully comes across in the book. But it was like a cat and wild dogs staring at each other. It was completely different species. We were from such different worlds. I knew that the last thing...
CA: I liked them a lot, actually. What amazed me about the Marines is that it was just like being in any other profession. I had a stereotypical view of anybody who joins the military. My opinion of people who joined the military was pretty much they must be sort...
The Pentagon insists that the Marines are taking more casualties because their aggressive offensive is forcing the insurgents to fight back. "They're just attacking in response to what we're doing and getting lucky," says a Marine officer on the ground. The Pentagon still believes the insurgents' primary strategy...
That depends on how you count. The Marines were killed not by suicide bombers but by the ubiquitous improvised explosive devices that remain the deadly bane of military patrols. The frequency and virulence of different kinds of attacks have ebbed and flowed, but since the beginning of the year, the...