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            <title><![CDATA[4 Burning Questions After WikiLeaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Who was minding the store when 92,000 classified military logs were  purloined? Retired Army Col. Ken Allard analyzes this and three other  troubling conundrums-including whether the leaker should pay the  ultimate price.
It's a bad time for secrets....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Confirmation: The Easy Part]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ After the confirmation lovefest comes the hard part: Making progress in a region that hasn't seen a military success since Genghis Khan. Retired Col. Ken Allard on the obstacles ahead for Petraeus.
The hastily arranged confirmation for David Petraeus...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What the Military Can Learn from McChrystal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Keep your mouth shut, honor civilian control, don't trust the press-Retired Army Col. Ken Allard offers five lessons for service members in the wake of the McChrystal affair.
What new lessons will the professional military take away from President...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Not Now]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's decision to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell shows how little civilians respect the military. Ken Allard on the danger of the repeal.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell may be a policy whose time has come and gone. But several small details...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Military Moves In]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Navy and Marines arrive in Haiti to bring relief, Ret. Army Col. Ken Allard on where to land the choppers, how to police without invading, and lessons of disaster relief missions past. 
With flotillas of ships and fleets of aircraft now closing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fifty Little CIAs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If President Obama wants to protect America from terrorist attacks, he should begin by dismantling the gigantic bureaucracies we've built to fight it-and empowering the locals. 
Last week, President Obama scolded his national-security team for failing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Terror Deja Vu]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Speaking again from Hawaii, Obama said "a systemic failure" of government intelligence facilitated the near-bombing of Flight 253. Ret. Col. Ken Allard on how communication failures kill.
When I was in the military, we called the problem...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[He's No JFK]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The speech wasn't bad. But Obama failed to inspire, let alone satisfy. Ken Allard asks: Whatever happened to "pay any price, bear any burden?"
From the doodles on my notepad while waiting for the president's speech to begin:
There once was a young...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why We Should Screen Muslim Soldiers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Pentagon probes what happened at Fort Hood and Obama readies for a fresh surge in Afghanistan, retired Col. Ken Allard asks the hard questions the Army needs to put to Muslim soldiers. 
The memorials are behind us. The Pentagon's investigation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next Fort Hood]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As the Texas Army base mourns its massacre victims and Americans remembers the fallen on Veterans Day, retired Army Col. Ken Allard calls for relief for the country's exhausted armed forces.
"How could this tragedy have happened?" wailed the anchors...]]></description>
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