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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Trump’s plan for Syrian civil war stalls after risk board game runs out of pieces

Trump’s plan for Syrian civil war stalls after risk board game runs out of pieces

WASHINGTON — A new plan touted by President Donald Trump to end the nearly six-year-long Syrian Civil War has reportedly stalled after the president and his staff realized they did not have enough different colors and pieces to represent all the different factions in the country, sources confirmed today.

"It's a pretty ridiculous oversight for a strategy game that supposedly prides itself on realism," said Michael Flynn, the president's national security adviser.

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