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Scientist Urges Army to Study 'Smart Drugs' for Soldiers

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 2) -- A prominent neuroscientist is urging the Army to study the effects of cognitive-enhancing pharmaceuticals -- so-called "smart drugs" -- on soldiers in the battlefield. The rapid expansion of smart-drug use among everyone from students to scientists has sparked controversy about the health effects...

Study: Quarter of US Military Applicants Are Too Fat to Fight

(Oct. 15) -- There's no question that America's youth are squeezing into bigger jeans than they did a decade ago. But a new study on military recruits offers a startling reminder that today's young adults are increasingly too fat to fight. Researchers at Cornell crunched the numbers on military applicants and concluded...

Obama Marks Formal End of US Combat in Iraq

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (Aug. 28) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday the end of combat operations in Iraq doesn't just reaffirm the country's sovereignty, but also makes good on one of his principle campaign pledges. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to highlight Tuesday's formal end to U.S. combat...

Peacekeepers Fail to Stop Congo Rapes: Time for a UN Army?

(Aug. 24) -- As Rwandan and Congolese rebels spent four days raping up to 200 women and baby boys within miles of a United Nations military camp, U.N. peacekeepers did ... nothing. "There was no immediate explanation as to why the attacks were not reported until today," AOL News reported on Monday. And yet, the news of...

Odierno: US Combat Role in Iraq Unlikely to Resume

WASHINGTON (Aug. 22) -- It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country. With a major military milestone in sight, Gen. Ray Odierno said in interviews...

Background on combat

Combat, or fighting, is a purposeful violent conflict meant to establish dominance over the opposition, or to kill the opposition, or drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed.

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