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		<title>Hagel Orders Review of Sex-Abuse Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon&#8217;s control. He said this step is one among many that will be taken to fix the problem of sexual abuse and sexual harassment within every branch of the military. At a news conference with Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hagel said he believes alcohol use is &#8220;a very big factor&#8221; in many sexual assault and sexual harassment cases, but there are many pieces to the problem. Hagel said it has become clear to him since taking office in February that holding people accountable for their actions is important, but simply firing people is not a solution. &#8220;Who are you going to fire?&#8221; he asked. A catalyst for congressional outrage has been the disclosure in recent days of at least two cases in which a military member with responsibility for sexual assault prevention programs has himself been accused of sexual misconduct. Earlier Friday, the Air Force&#8217;s top general said that sexual assaults in his branch of the military typically involve alcohol use and can be traced to a lack of respect for women. &#8220;We have a problem with respect for women that leads to many of the situations that result in sexual assault in our Air Force,&#8221; Gen. Mark Welsh told reporters in a lengthy interview in his Pentagon offices. He spoke one day after he and other military leaders were summoned to the White House to discuss the sexual assault problem with President Barack Obama, who has expressed impatience with the Pentagon&#8217;s failure to solve it. Welsh said combatting the problem, which he characterized as a crisis, is his No. 1 priority as the Air Force chief of staff. He said he reviews every reported case of sexual assault; last year there were 792 in the Air Force. (MORE: A Female Soldier Tells Her Tragic Tale of Abuse) Welsh addressed criticism<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95984&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Roots of Sexual Abuse in the Military</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Yet Another Sexual-Assault Investigation Likely to Spur Congressional Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Obama-Friendly Think Tank Ponders a Nuclear-Armed Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sexual Assault in the Ranks</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/08/sexual-assault-in-the-ranks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Planely Not Taking Sexual Assaults Seriously…Enough</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/07/u-s-air-sex-farce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>How the U.S. is Building Unhealthy Hospitals in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Storming the Beach: Semper Fi, Dude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa August</dc:creator>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/29/connecting-the-dots/#ixzz2RrjkLoWl</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>U.S. Intelligence on Sarin…With a Grain of Salt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Pentagon Medics Weigh in on the “Signature Scars of a Long War”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Boston Bombings: Peculiar Benefits of the 9/11 Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Pentagon’s 2014 Budget: The Joint Chiefs of Chaff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pentagon Budget Day: President&#8217;s Chopper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hagel’s Flawed Defense-Spending Premise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hagel Taking Pay Cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>North Korea’s Nuclear Cul-de-Sac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Marines in Mourning: Double-Murder, Suicide at Quantico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Marine’s Anniversary Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the little details you tend to remember about war, snapshots of time that have a grisly habit of creeping into your thoughts and dreams years after your service: – The deafening silence of “roll call” during a memorial service for fallen comrades. – A jagged piece of metallic shrapnel deeply-embedded in the whites of an eyeball of a friend who lay screaming on a stretcher. – An insurgent’s shredded, infected calf muscle torn apart by an M-16, gaping open to the bone. These are just some of the intrusive images from Iraq that visit me from time to time — each one a reminder of the gruesomeness that is war. Ten years ago, full of preconceived notions and unrealistic expectations of combat, I watched the invasion of Iraq unfold from the confines of my barracks room in Quantico, Va. Joined by fellow boot lieutenants from my Marine Corps officer basic school class,  we made cocky, off-hand remarks about Marines kicking ass and killing the enemy — frankly, that’s exactly what we were training to do. So at the time, it seemed like justified confidence for warriors-in-training like us with everything to prove. But in reality, this group of alpha males was trying desperately to mask our collective insecurity with our uncertain, yet rapidly approaching, destinies in the corps. It was a strange feeling — almost out-of-body, really — to be in the middle of training for war and watching an actual war on TV&#8230; To finish reading this article from TIME Battleland click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90775&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: Ten Years After</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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