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IN HARM'S WAY

Little is being made of the almost insane success of the military

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Larry Schweikart
Mar 10, 2026
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It’s easy to get caught up in initial reports from battlefields. Anyone old enough to remember the first weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom would have thought the troops would be home in a month. Iraqi military forces collapsed and ran; American armor staged the “Thunder Run” right into the heart of Baghdad with tanks and armored personnel carriers, at the time defying all the rules of warfare.

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