When too many officers leave, military leaders are forced to ramp up their rates of promotion, according to a 2010 US Army War College paper.

BBC: Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain

At that time, the paper provided the Army with three of the photos and other information about the circumstances under which they were obtained, said George Wright, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.

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The Army inspector general is expected Tuesday morning to deliver a report on the circumstances under which the Army last week sent a paper of "talking points" to Capitol Hill defending the need to keep the Crusader program alive.

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Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.

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He told the paper drug misuse was unacceptable in the Army and offenders would normally be removed from the service.

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Its army of researchers provide useful guidance: a recent IMF paper suggests that steady fiscal consolidations, rather than the sharp ones the EC favours, work better.

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Under the planned shake-up - to be detailed in a White Paper before Parliament breaks for the summer - the Territorial Army will be renamed the Army Reserves to reflect its enhanced role.

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In an article on the FT's website, the paper said 12 posts titled "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army" appeared on its Tech blog between 8:38 a.m. and 8:42 a.m. on Friday.

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Lewis Fry Richardson, an English meteorologist and mathematician, was ridiculed for his suggestion in 1922 that it might be possible to predict the weather using an army of thousands of mathematicians, sitting at desks in a vast arena and passing slips of paper to each other.

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The reason "Dear" may be destined to die is that it faces a dilemma much like an army confronted with a pincers movement in war: On the one flank, written-on-paper, mailed letters -- the kind that have always been started with "Dear" -- are rapidly disappearing, as use of the U.S. mail itself dwindles.

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The accelerated process "undercuts the Army's ability to discern which officers possess the talent it needs", according to the authors of the paper.

BBC: Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain