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Week of September 03, 2009

CNN alum Jamie McIntyre brings his years of military reporting experience to a new national policy and news analysis blog at Military.com -- "The Line of Departure." Each day Jamie will offer his unique take on events affecting the military, giving readers a behind the scenes view of issues surrounding the wars and exclusive profiles of the newsmakers involved with them. Read one of his latest entries, "When Body Counts Count" -- When Gen. Tommy Franks famously remarked, "we don't do body counts" in 2002, at the beginning of the Afghan war, he wasn't being callous. He was making it clear he wasn't making the mistake of measuring battlefield success by the number of enemy forces killed. Read more now.