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							<title><![CDATA[What Ads in the New Yorker Tell Us About the Oligarchy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/02/understanding-the-psyche-of-todays-american-oligarchy-through-magazine-ads</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Ricks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker&rsquo;s news columns shed light on the state of the nation, but its advertisements speak to the state of our culture]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The General Who Should Lead the Pentagon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/the-general-who-should-lead-the-pentagon.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Ricks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nominating a retired general to be secretary of defense is an unusual move in American politics. Since just after World War II, when the Department of Defense was created, only one general has held the post. That was George C. Marshall, who was more a supreme administrator in the Army...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What SecDef Mattis Means for the Military &amp; Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/21/mattis-as-defense-secretary-what-it-means-for-us-for-the-military-and-for-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Ricks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mattis vs. Trump: Some big differences.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Draft Our Kids]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/opinion/lets-draft-our-kids.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Ricks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IN late June, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, called for reinstating the draft. &ldquo;I think if a nation goes to war, every town, every city needs to be at risk,&rdquo; he said at the Aspen Ideas Festival. &ldquo;You make that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Petraeus Will Struggle to Replicate Iraq Success]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/24/AR2010062402982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Ricks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week's confrontation between a senior Army general and the president of the United States may have signaled the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan. In a year or two, President Obama will be able to say that he gave the conflict his best shot, reshaping the strategy and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Odierno Reversed the Tide of Iraq War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020702153.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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