Corps Facing Bloody Afghan Deployment

[Da-Chief]

Eighteen months ago the Marine Corps was absorbing dozens of casualties per month in attacks in Iraq. Today, the bloodletting is in Afghanistan, where a resurgent Taliban insurgency and an undermanned, politically-constrained NATO force has lead to a sharp rise in leathernecks killed or wounded.

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