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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.

Duffel Blog presents: 8 ways to win your next argument

Throw away that copy of How to Argue and Win Every Time! We have you covered. The next time you find yourself decisively engaged in a conflict of words, here are eight ways to assure victory:

1. Talk over the other person.

If they can't get a word in, they can't possibly win the argument. Easy! Eventually they will give up and go away, which everyone knows means that they concede the argument. Check and mate.

2. Guilt them about your service.

Repeat after me: "You'd feel differently about this if you knew what it meant to serve." If arguing with another vet, insist that their experience didn't count because they were a POG or in the Air Force or whatever.

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