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Provocation on the High Seas: U.S. Naval Adventures Near the Shores of Russia, China and Iran
The war on terror is slowly ending
The U.S. military will try to keep bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, but with most troops gone in the next few years, the lives of the few who remain will be at constant risk.
- Eve Ottenberg
- CounterPunch
Pressure will mount to get those soldiers out.
But Pentagon bureaucrats and brass are masters of institutional infighting, and, apparently, ignoring presidential orders they don’t like, so who knows how that will turn out?
One thing is sure: the military’s focus has shifted, from the Middle East to Russia and China.
That means U.S. soldiers and…