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This will be the first of a (hopefully) weekly roundup of interesting and important links from around the web.

• The Diplomat - The Strategic Corporal's Evil Twin
• The Diplomat - Taliban Suspends Talks
• The Washington Post - Widow of Marine who committed suicide to receive life insurance claim
• Zenpundit - Supporting Our Troops by Treating them like Children and Drunkards
• Slouching Towards Columbia - Taming intervention is harder than it seems
  (GWU student Dan Trombly discusses limited interventions like the Banana Wars and compares them to the possibility of an intervention in Syria.)
• Foreign Policy - This Week at War: Losing Faith
• Gunpowder and Lead - All About the (Private) Benjamins
• Gunpowder and Lead - Build a House and Burn it Down
  (Marine Captain Jonathan Rue discusses issues surrounding combat advisors.)
• Danger Room - Gunboats, Super-Torpedoes, Sea-Bots: U.S. Navy launches huge Iran surge
• Marine Corps Times - Corps, Army to restart "forcible entry" drills
• Small Wars Journal - Romancing the COIN
• Global Politics - Iraq Update: An interview with Author Peter J. Munson
  (Global Politics magazine interviews our own Peter Munson.)
• The Political Notebook - Afghanistan in 2012 (so far): A Summary
  (Last but not least, journalist Torie Rose DeGhett sums up Afghanistan so far this year.)