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How to not win wars
Setting public deadlines, exit strategies, and casualty limits is a time-honored way to lose wars.
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Poll: Partisan divide widens on Iran war
North Carolina voters broadly oppose ground troops in Iran and are split on whether the US was right to launch military action there, according to a new poll from Catawba College. Meanwhile, former Gov. Roy Cooper holds a 14-point lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the early US Senate race.
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Hegseth delivers message of support and pay raises at Fort Bragg’s All-American Week
“We've had this day circled on our calendar in the Pentagon for quite some time,” he told the soldiers. “It is great to be here at Fort Bragg, it is Fort Bragg again. You know there's nothing wrong with liberty, give me liberty or give me death. I love it, but give me Fort Bragg every day of the week.”
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Fort Liberty to be renamed Fort Bragg in honor of WWII hero
Fort Liberty in Fayetteville will once again be known as Fort Bragg, but it won’t be for Confederate General Braxton Bragg.
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Fort Bragg troops to deploy to the southern border
Soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty are said to be among the nearly 1,500 active duty soldiers the Pentagon is getting set to deploy to the southern border to help with the suppression of illegal immigration.
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On its 80th anniversary, D-Day still matters
The absence of major events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in North Carolina's capital makes it clear we've lost sight of the importance of this key victory over totalitarianism.
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House convenes session, elects Moore to record fifth term as speaker
Members of the N.C. House of Representatives took the oath of office Wednesday, opening the long legislative session for 2023. Republicans have two more seats in the chamber this session, after voters in November elected 71 Republicans and 49 Democrats. Those totals leave Republicans one vote shy of a veto-proof supermajority. Rep. Jimmy Dixon, R-Duplin,...
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Fort Bragg soldiers establishing safe havens for Americans fleeing Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine escalates, soldiers from the world’s largest military base, Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, are being sent to Europe, both as a deterrent to further Russian aggression and to help Americans fleeing the fighting. “On Feb. 2, approximately 2,000 were deployed from Fort Bragg; Feb. 11, we deployed another 3,000 from the...
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Senate report: Biden administration left thousands in Afghanistan, ‘now subject to a brutal Muslim regime’
A failure of duty caused by lack of planning, coordination, and communication left hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of allies in Afghanistan after a botched withdrawal from the country in August 2021, a new Senate report says. The U.S. will have to deal with the fallout of this failure for years to come,...
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Americans have little taste for war in Ukraine, poll finds
Americans have little appetite for a potential war with Russia, a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports finds. The new national telephone and online survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 26, finds that only 31% of likely American voters think that, if Russia attacks Ukraine, U.S. combat troops should be sent to help, Rasmussen says. Of the respondents,...
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Afghanistan: Republican lawmakers representing N.C. in Washington demand answers
Republicans in Congress, including those representing North Carolina, are seeking detailed answers from the Biden administration over the United States’ catastrophic exit from Afghanistan. Thousands of people — Americans, their allies, and those friendly to Americans — who wanted to leave Afghanistan amid the chaos after the Taliban takeover are still in the war-torn country....
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Winning? Biden lays blame for messy exits: Americans call for more transparency
We’re winning in Afghanistan. That was the mantra, what they told us. Never entirely true. Some of it, maybe. Many of us in the U.S. were admittedly oblivious to the realities that Taliban fighters still maintained strongholds in the mountains, that ferocious attacks on allied military bases and outposts continued. Suicide bombings, car bombings. Winning? ...
