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I was twice fired by the United Nations from senior supervisory positions: Both times for insisting that there are occasions when my first loyalty is to staff and mission ahead of allegiance to superiors.
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"We cannot allow direct action maneuver units to be rendered ineffective due to an outbreak of COVID19 being spurred by deploying them in a humanitarian aid capability."
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Although initially slow-off-the-mark, Italy rightly came to treat the pandemic like a military conflict.
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My wife and I, already three weeks into self-isolation, remain in Rome under government-mandated pandemic protocols.
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We are calling on the administration to immediately reverse its course and automatically add the benefits that these individuals have the right to receive.
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As the nation struggles with isolation, a psychologist offers "a tactical analysis of mental warfare" that can help veterans facing depression.
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Military medicine has long been a critically valuable source of research, insight, training and skill for the nation and now is no different. Yet even as leaders turn to the military for manpower, medics, and expertise, the Defense Department is engineering a reduction of that system.
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Military medicine is providing assistance in unprecedented ways.
My wife and I, already three weeks into self-isolation, remain in Rome under government-mandated pandemic protocols.
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Don't let the coronavirus halt the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Nothing that I have experienced in either my U.S. military or United Nations careers is comparable.
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As COVID-19 has made us all more aware, the military has neither a monopoly on service or sacrifice.
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Next week, as the coronavirus pandemic is expected to reach its peak in the U.S., my husband will go back into the hospital. I wonder if he’ll be any safer there than he was in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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North Korea is the least-equipped country in the world to deal with coronavirus. Last week, at a ground-breaking ceremony for a new Pyongyang General Hospital scheduled for completion by October, Kim Jong Un himself admitted that North Korea lacks modern medical facilities and demanded improvements.
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Knowing who’s at risk and why puts all of us in a position to step up and help before the moment a crisis hits.