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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.

Taylor Swift lyrics for military experiences

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Taylor Swift shocked the world last week by releasing an album with just 16 hours notice. Swift says the album Folklore was inspired by imagination and memory, but one popular internet theory proposes that Swift has actually long been inspired by military experiences. The proof is in the lyrics:

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