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Desert Storm’s General Norman Schwarzkopf remembered

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Celebrated Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of coalition forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, died Thursday at age 78. He suffered complications from pneumonia.

Iraq troop surge ends, Afghanistan uncertain

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Obama fires McChrystal: a Truman-MacArthur dismissal or a Lincoln-Hooker moment?

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Gen. David Petraeus on war and defense strategy overseas

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General Zinni on Leadership

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Boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan

Global Politics

Later this morning President Bush will speak at the National Defense University about the status of troops in Iraq, and possibly Afghanistan. The speech comes on the heels of a review of Iraq plans by General David Petraeus, who has been the theater commander in Iraq since January 2007.