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	<title>On Combat</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;The Few&#8221; Americans in the Battle of Britain</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/11/26/the-few-americans-in-the-battle-of-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Kershaw&#8217;s The Few: The American &#8220;Knights of the Air&#8221; Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940 is an exciting biographical narrative about three American flyers who left the United States in 1940 to fly against Hitler&#8217;s Germany. 
The heroic profiles penned by Kershaw paint a vivid picture of the joys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combat Motivation: Record Reenlistment in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/07/23/combat-motivation-record-reenlistment-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/07/23/combat-motivation-record-reenlistment-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass reenlistments are a significant affirmation of American fighting men and women&#8217;s fighting spirit. On 4 July, 2008, nearly 1% of all American service members in Iraq elected to reenlist in a ceremony committing them to 5,500 man-years of military service.  (See Army.mil/news: 1,215 Servicemembers re-up in Iraq). This ceremony more than doubled last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snipers, Rules, and Moral Roulette</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/07/02/snipers-rules-and-moral-roulette/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/07/02/snipers-rules-and-moral-roulette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s testimony of a Marine Lieutenant in a hearing on a shooting in Iraq (&#8221;Marine Snipers&#8217; Killing Rules Weren&#8217;t Clear, Lieutenant Testifies&#8221; Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2008) probes the gray areas between use of force and restraint in a counterinsurgency campaign:
&#8220;Lt. Dominic Corabi said that as he and his Marines deployed to Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conditioning to Kill</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/03/28/conditioning-to-kill/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/03/28/conditioning-to-kill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Army is experimenting with new basic rifle marksmanship (BRM) skills based on lessons of recent combat. (see Jackson Testing New Weapons Qualification Method) Building solid habits on the training ranges is an essential step to applying the actions needed in battle. World War II saw a restructuring of marksmanship training (partially instigated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restraint the Basis of Legitimacy</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/15/restraint-the-basis-of-legitimacy/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/15/restraint-the-basis-of-legitimacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting contrasts have appeared in the week following Sgt Evan Vela&#8217;s murder conviction for killing an Iraqi non-combatant captive during a  patrol south of Baghdad:
The Washington Times published the Rules of Engagement used by US Army MPs. (see U.S. Military&#8217;s Restraint Not Al Qaeda&#8217;s War Code) This look at normally classified rules indicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Soldiers: Al Qaeda&#8217;s New Recruits?</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/15/child-soldiers-al-qaedas-new-recruits/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/15/child-soldiers-al-qaedas-new-recruits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Combat Motivation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Dimension of War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Defense released recent Al Qaeda video of Iraqi children being prepared for terror missions. An estimated 250,000 children are being used as  soldiers in strife-ridden areas such as Africa. Some of the data collected to date on child soldiers may help better understand this crop of potential child terrorists:
Recruitment Motivation: Forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing or Murder: Holding the Line</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/10/killing-or-murder-holding-the-line/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/10/killing-or-murder-holding-the-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 10 Feb, Army Sgt van Vela was sentenced to 10 years in the killing of an Iraqi his patrol had detained. This is an affirmation that the US places a heavy emphasis on the distinction between lawful conduct of war, and the unlawful use of violence against non-combatants.
Just Conduct in War (jus in belo) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence: Essential to Combat Motivation</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/03/confidence-essential-to-combat-motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/03/confidence-essential-to-combat-motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another F-15C was lost 2 Feb off the coast of Hawaii; the cause is yet to be determined, and may prove to be material failure or pilot error&#8211;we&#8217;ll have to wait on the USAF&#8217;s investigation. For the initial report see: Pilot OK after F-15 crash off Hawaii coast
This string of F-15C failures usually leads to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Suicides Considered Next to DoD Rates</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/01/active-duty-suicides-in-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/02/01/active-duty-suicides-in-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent Washington Post coverage of Army suicide rates suggest the force is unravelling under the strain of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:
Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by The Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD</title>
		<link>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/01/31/traumatic-brain-injury-and-ptsd/</link>
		<comments>http://oncombat.net/blog/2008/01/31/traumatic-brain-injury-and-ptsd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B.A.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Colonel Charles Hoge of Walter Reed published a study on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq in the New England Journal of Medicine this month.
Their major finding was that there is a high correlation between a mild traumatic brain injury (mild TBI) that was severe enough to cause unconsciousness and PTSD, [...]]]></description>
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