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MURPHY'S LAW: How Islam Breeds Defeat In The Air

SURFACE FORCES : Saar For The Rest Of Us

ATTRITION: The Destruction Of The Syrian Air Force

IRAQ: Holding Off The Holocaust

AIR DEFENSE: Patriot Gains A Longer Reach Against Missiles

PROCUREMENT: How Israeli Tech Gets To Eager Moslem Customers

MURPHY'S LAW: How The Generals Learned To Tolerate The Internet

YEMEN: Al Qaeda Scrambles To Survive

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Divided On Making Peace

ISRAEL: Palestinians Inspired, Confused And Divided By Syria

MURPHY'S LAW: The Search For Politically Correct Weapons

COUNTER-TERRORISM: Why Syrian Rebels Have Their Own Internal Civil War

INFORMATION WARFARE: Data Mining Screws The Pirates

RUSSIA: The Red Army Gets Its Mojo Back

INFORMATION WARFARE: NetTraveler Joins Red October

WARPLANES: Yet More New Arrival Dates For The F-35

ARTILLERY: Caesar Gets Bulletproof, Just In Case

INDIA-PAKISTAN: Dark Days For The Generals

NAVAL AIR: U.S. Navy Ships Get a New UAV

INTELLIGENCE: How To Spot North Korean Spies

PROCUREMENT: Russia Battles Incompetent Shipyards

MURPHY'S LAW: The Chinese Edge Over South Asia

SYRIA: A Bloody Summer Guaranteed

SUDAN: Misery

NAVAL AIR: Russia Plays Catch Up

IRAN: The Sure Thing

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April 16, 2000

Colonel William T Bester has been selected as the first man to command the Army Nurse Corps since it was created in 1901. Men could not hold commissions in the Army Nurse Corps until 1955.--Stephen V Cole

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