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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Big news: Afghanistan and Iraq aren't WARS, they're CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Big news: Afghanistan and Iraq aren't WARS, they're CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS

the following is part of the previous post but it's worth a post of its own...
[M]ilitary operations in Iraq and Afghanistan never involved a declaration of war...

so, what IS it then...? why, it's a...
..."contingency operation." Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq both fit that definition.

ta-da...!

it's getting hard to keep up...

surge escalation augmentation

war contingency operation

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