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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Kimberly Kagan, president of Institute for the Study of War, listens as Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, talks with students participating in the Institute’s Hertog War Studies program in Washington D.C., Aug. 6, 2014.

Kimberly Kagan, president of Institute for the Study of War, listens as Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, talks with students participating in the Institute’s Hertog War Studies program in Washington D.C., Aug. 6, 2014.

Kimberly Kagan, president of Institute for the Study of War, listens as Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, talks with students participating in the Institute’s Hertog War Studies program in Washington D.C., Aug. 6, 2014.

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