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• A counterinsurgency catch and release program

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  Independent:
  
  

  The men looked frightened. Taken in handcuffs after US Marines found caches of Kalashnikovs, bomb-making material and opium during searches of their homes in a major offensive against the Taliban, their future looked bleak. But just 48 hours later the prisoners were brought back to their village [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:25pm EST
  

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• Royal Marine leads bayonet assualt

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  Scotsman:
  
  THE attack was sudden and unexpected. Patrolling a notoriously dangerous area of Afghanistan, Bradley Malone and his fellow Royal Marines were caught in a fierce ambush by insurgents.
  
  But, in a remarkable show of calm under extreme pressure, Corporal Malone led his unit in a devastating [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:55pm EST
  

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• Inside Operation Cobra's Anger

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  Independent:
  
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  The Independent accompanied a force of around 1,500 – two-thirds US marines, the rest British, Danish and Afghan – as it launched Operation Khareh Cobra, "Cobra's Rage" in Pashto. Their target was Nawzad, once the second largest town in the province, which passed into Taliban [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:26pm EST
  

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• Marines Assault Breacher Vehicle clears path to attack Taliban

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  McClatchy:
  
  

  The new NATO offensive in Helmand Province marked not only the largest assault yet for the VM-22 Osprey, but also the combat debut of the Marines' massive new combat mine and bomb-clearing machine, the Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), said a Marine Corps spokesman in Helmand.

  The ABV, which' [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:04am EST
  

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• Marines' Osprey passes first combat test

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  McClatchy:
  
  When a couple of VM-22 Osprey tilt rotors joined a fleet of CH-53 helicopters, dropping out of the predawn darkness Friday in the northern end of the Now Zad valley in Helmand Province to deliver the first of more than 1,000 NATO and Afghan troops, it marked [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:49pm EST
  

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• Cobra's Anger a warm up for attack on Marja

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  LA Times:
  
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  The assault in Helmand province, named Cobra's Anger, may prove to be a warmup for a larger, more complex and more dangerous assault on Marja, a town to which many Taliban fighters and narcotics middlemen fled after Marines descended on nearby villages this summer.
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:57am EST
  

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• Operation Cobra's Anger day two

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  Reuters/Washington Post:
  
  U.S. Marines pressed into a remote Taliban stronghold on Saturday with their first major assault in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama earmarked 30,000 more troops to try to turn the tide on the Taliban insurgency.

  Operation "Cobra's Anger," which involves 900 U.S. Marines and [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:11am EST
  

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• 1,000 Marines lead offensive aganst Taliban

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  Fox News:
  
  

  U.S. Marines and Afghan troops on Friday launched the first offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.

  Hundreds of troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines and the [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:53pm EST
  

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• Marines looking for more Afghan troops

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  Reuters:
  
  Brigadier General Larry Nicholson is glad President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, but what he needs now is not more Americans, it's more Afghans.
  
  "I got 10,000 Marines. I have 2,000 Afghans," the commander of U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan told Reuters.
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:45am EST
  

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• Marines pushing anti poppy campaign in Helmand

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  LA Times:
  
  Under an awning set up at a tiny outpost guarded by U.S. Marines, the district governor of Nawa is pleading with three dozen solemn-looking farmers and village elders not to plant the crop that feeds the world heroin market.
  
  Haji Abdul Manaf, a farmer and [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

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• 9,000 more Marines headed to Helmand

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  Washington Post:
  
  Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:46am EST
  

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• Side With the Troops or Side With Iran -- Guess Which Obama Chose

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  If you said the troops, you fail. Barack Obama has sided with Iran's Islamist government over a US court decision intended to provide restitution to the families of Marines killed in the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut.... [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:27pm EST
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• THE MARINES WANT THIS TO ROLL ALL OVER THE U.S

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   I recieved this and wanted to post this to Thank this Marine, I felt that this was fitting this day.  To thank our Soldiers on Thanksgiving Day! Thank You for all you to fighting for our Freedom!  Americans do appreciate you and all you do!  

  THE MARINES WANT THIS TO [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:25pm EST
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• Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t in U.S. Military

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  Salon had a story yesterday that was the counterpoint to the tragedy at Ft. Hood: A psychiatrist who tried to prevent Fort Hood-style violence among Marines about to “lose it” instead loses his job Last April, two Marines at Camp Lejeune predicted to Doctor Kernan Manion, a psychiatrist with more than 25 [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:00am EST
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