When you learn that it is being taken seriously by the U.S. Air Force, and that we are spending tax dollars to train military doctors in this method, you might want to cry instead.

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It was mostly filled in the 1990s by Syrian military intelligence, whose favoured method of control was to set different factions on each other.

ECONOMIST: Long the unluckiest of the lot

Niemtzow has trained hundreds of military doctors in battlefield acupuncture, a method that he invented in 2001.

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