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In Vietnam, it was known as the village-pacification program: Marines in the Combined Action Program first took out Charlie and communist sympathizers, and then tried to convince the villagers that life would be swell now that the bad guys were gone.
So here in Al Qadisiyah, the hearts-and-minds exercise is a priority, since the Marines need to secure two towns and two hamlets along a road linking a pair of north-south highways in the vicinity. The area forms a picture of rustic simplicity: donkeys tied up next to...
Tanks with nicknames such as Carnivore and Prom Queen roll into the first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus...
As war began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed...
Marinelarena, the only Ivy League student at the camp, says that he now shares a room with three other Marines that is half the size of his “cushy” single in Lowell House.