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Still at War, the Army Opens a New Front: Against Soldier Suicidenew
In 2008, 140 active-duty soldiers committed suicide. That's 75 percent more than the number in 2003 and the highest rate since the Army started keeping track three decades ago. Jim Haus was almost one of the casualties.
Commission on Wartime Contracting Tries -- Finally -- to Summon Truman's Spiritnew
Earlier this week in Washington was the first public hearing of a new bureaucratic body called the Commission on Wartime Contracting -- the lovechild of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and Virginia Sen. Jim Webb.
At Fort Leavenworth, Officers Are Marching on the Blogospherenew
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, who oversees the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, decided last year to make media savvy a requirement for graduation. Each war-college student must complete a course of "strategic communication" in order to graduate.
John Angolia, the Military Widow Shoppernew
A war memorabilia collector hits up widows of vets.
Tags: war & peace
An Iraq Vet's Oval Office Ambushnew
With war memories torturing him, Alexis Janicki tried to bust his way into the White House.
Virtual Warnew
Military brass head to the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth to learn from the mistakes in Iraq.
A Tale of Two Soldiersnew
Two Kansas City grunts who took bullets on the same day struggle with surviving the war.
