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Iraq Is Breaking the Army

Inadequate training, gear, hobbles troops

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 6, 2007 8:47 AM CDT

(Newser) – The U.S. Army is stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan that it's sending ill-prepared and ill-equipped young people into harm’s way, Time reports. And the surge in troops is only deepening the crisis: Two of the five new brigades bound for the...   Read full story »

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