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Our year of war : two brothers, Vietnam, and a nation divided
Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
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Is It Time for a Tobacco-free Military?
Achieving a tobacco-free military requires rethinking current perceptions of service members' tobacco use and unmasking the forces perpetuating those perceptions. Prohibiting tobacco use would be entirely consistent with other military requirements regarding health.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recently announced that he wanted to end tobacco sales on all Navy installations. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, citing both financial costs and tobacco's harmful effects on readiness, added that military tobacco policy in general should be reviewed, including the possibility of ending tobacco sales and establishing smoke-free military installations. Currently, a Department of Defense review of the tobacco issue is under way, 5 years after the Institute of Medicine called for a tobacco-free military.
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Military personnel are required to pass fitness tests, undergo periodic drug tests, and meet weight and body-composition standards or . . .
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Chuck Hagel urges fresh thinking about the Middle East
Addressing the NCUSAR conference on October 26, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged both the US and the countries of the Middle East to courageously forge a new path for the region. The notion that the Middle East is condemned to a future of war and violence should not be accepted, Hagel stressed. The nations of the region must realize the status quo is unsustainable, he said, and come together to negotiate a shared vision for the future. Outside powers such as the US can assist in the formation of such an agreement, but no accord will prevail in the long run unless ultimate accountability for its success rests with the leaders and people of the region, he emphasized.
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An Interview with Chuck Hagel
On Wednesday, April 24, former secretary of defense Chuck Hagel joined Cristine Pedersen, GJIA editor-in-chief and a former enlisted Marine, for a conversation on leadership, improving the US military, and critical topics of US national security and foreign policy. [...]many are left without a clear understanding of who veterans are and what pressures they face. A report from the US Institute of Peace's Task Force on Violent Extremism has highlighted that, while the US has implemented recommendations from the first two pillars of the 9/11 commission report—the first of which is to degrade active terror organizations, and the second of which is to protect the homeland against future attacks—there has been little progress in implementing its third pillar, which is preventing violent extremism from arising in the first place. In hearings with the Senate Foreign Relations committee, we used to hear generals, secretaries of defense, deputy secretaries of defense, and others tell us that we'd be out of Iraq and Afghanistan within two years.
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Precarious World: Rethinking Global Fiction in Mohsin Hamid's \The Reluctant Fundamentalist\
Through a reading of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, this essay outlines a theory of critical global fiction: literary works that contest the forces inhibiting global understanding and advance international coalitions through this struggle itself.
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