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Senior American officials voiced serious concern on Saturday following the leak of two US intelligence documents allegedly outlining Israel’s preparations for a potential strike on Iran. These documents were published by a Telegram account linked to Iran. While both the US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, they did not deny their authenticity. The documents included an alleged report from the US Department of Defense's visual intelligence agency, which had been circulated within the US intelligence community three days earlier. The report detailed alleged recent actions at...

06.17.2005 Not a Recruiting Crisis, But a Cultural One By David DeBatto Much has been written recently about the failure of the U.S. Army to meet its recruiting goals over the past few months. Even the active Army, which had been able to achieve its goals earlier in the fiscal year, has fallen short in the past four months. As almost anyone with any interest in the news already knows, the reserve components (Army Reserve and Army National Guard specifically), have been especially hard hit by the recruiting drought, with the Guard being almost one-third off its fiscal-year-to-date goal. There...