Word: postcombat
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Saddam was captured on Dec. 13, 2003, in a spider hole on a farm near Tikrit. His briefcase was filled with documents identifying many of the former Baathists running support networks for the insurgency. It was the first major victory of what the U.S. called the postcombat phase of the war: in early 2004, 188 insurgents were captured, many of whom had been mentioned in the seized documents. Although Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam's former No. 2, narrowly evaded capture, much of his Mosul and Kirkuk apparatus was rolled up. Baathist financial networks were disrupted in several provinces...
...addition to the physical and emotional toll they suffer, the wounded in Iraq face other challenges--rehabilitation, retraining, postcombat counseling and long-term medical care, to name a few. All of these will drive up spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs for decades to come. There are also the wounds you cannot see. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a legacy of any war, especially those--unlike the 100-hour first Gulf War--that demand months, if not years, of U.S. occupation. "We have become much better at keeping people with severe injuries alive," says Loren Thompson of the Lexington...
...women, sunbathing on the island's beaches, looking every bit like tourists-except for their M-16 rifles. The G.I.s even found time to play a soccer match with a group of young Grenadians, who graciously held down the score while defeating the invaders 6-2. The postcombat letdown may have spawned one tragedy: at midweek, a G.I. accidentally shot and killed a fellow soldier while cleaning a .45-cal. pistol. Said Major General Jack Farris, commander of the U.S. forces in Grenada: "It's what happens when the war winds down. People get complacent. They get careless...
...chance to bend a responsive ear has helped to ease the lingering postcombat trauma of many veterans. Said Cleland: "Some guys are absolutely paralyzed by P.V.S. They have to have a compassionate environment to let themselves...
Mostly the heroes suffer familiar postcombat nightmares, get drunk and chase women whose habits and vernacular are not from the Deep South of the 1940s but from porn magazines of today. Luxor itself remains as dimensionless as its women, evoking the Memphis that was its model only in the names-Peabody and Claridge-stuck on its hotels...