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Combat veteran and professor Jim Purvis looks at what the Defense Secretary's decision to open up all combat arms to women means.

Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer reviews Nancy Sherman's new book "Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers."

Peter Storey argues that the Taliban's siege and brief capture of Kunduz lays bare a disturbing development in the Afghan War.

On the 240th anniversary of the battle that sparked the American Revolution, Chris Miller asks: What does it mean to have a culture where few will fight for a country all profess to love?

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has made moves to limit the U.S. military's reliance on PowerPoint. He needs to ban it entirely, says Katrin Park.