With the end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. is slashing defense again.
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During the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the military was hungry for experienced combat leaders, his commanders said, and Sgt.
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He also pushed for Congress to establish a jobs program for veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars originally announced earlier this year.
Even among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the best estimate was that just under 20 percent returned with symptoms of PTSD or major depression.
Any judgment about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars requires at least some counterfactual estimation as to what would have happened if the U.S. had not intervened.
The 2008 election is unusual in having so many big issues on the agenda: the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care, taxes, immigration, education and climate change.
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In November, the Government Accountability Office's head of acquisition management reminded a congressional panel that eight years into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. still has trouble keeping track of contractors--a problem with severe cost implications.
"'Trillion' does seem to have much more currency than it used to, probably because of the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the budget and deficit, " says John Allen Paulos a professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
This afternoon in the East Room of the White House, the President presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Army -- the first living servicemember from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to receive it.
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The Bush administration refused to confront the fact that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are to a large degree Iranian proxy wars.
The older brother argued with him about U.S. foreign policy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and religion.
Instead they are fighting wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, where Britain has over 7, 000 troops, including a divisional headquarters.
Forty-year-old David Passaro is the first U.S. civilian to be convicted of prisoner abuse during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Spending today as a percent of GDP is estimated at 4.1 percent - and that includes funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Last May saw a surge of new campaigners espousing causes including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as environmental and other issues.
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As the military withdraws from its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the guide postulates a smaller footprint in counter-terrorism, but with a wider reach.
The fact is American women have been fighting and dying alongside men in both Iraq and Afghanistan -- two wars with no front lines.
Today is only the third time during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that a recipient of the Medal of Honor has been able to accept it in person.
While Donald Rumsfeld was revamping the Pentagon and masterminding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Snow was ushered forth only to explain away the lacklustre economy and talk about tax cuts.
"Gayle was working to help little children with disabilities - some blind, some deaf, some with no limbs - including victims of the many landmines from the many wars in Afghanistan, " she said.
If anyone thinks Mr Bush is not responsible for foreign policy, whether the general approach to China or North Korea, the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq or the new American attitude toward Europe, they are wrong, argue Messrs Daalder and Lindsay.
The head of the British Army, General Richard Dannatt, and the head of the British armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, have both said British troops are stretched by fighting wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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After the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is little appetite for a new conflict.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are creating new work in communities across the country.
But they did talk about their frustration over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a boon to southern California's defence industry.
Meanwhile, well over a hundred women have died in combat in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He joined the corps in May 2006 and deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To give that some context, that would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for about a month.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be heading in different directions.
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