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Wayne Bowen

The Pen and the Sword

Wayne Bowen received his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University, and is also an Army veteran.

Veterans in a war-weary America

Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Iraq War is over, with the last U.S. forces withdrawn at the end of 2011. American and allied forces continue to fight in Afghanistan, but the Obama administration has signaled it intends to end that mission beginning in 2014. After more than 10 years of the War on Terror, however, the United States is on the downward slope in this global military engagement.

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