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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.

Afghanistan starts asking awkward questions about where small wars come from

KABUL — The United States just stared ahead with a blank look on its face after the Afghanistan War began asking questions about where small wars actually come from, sources confirmed today.

Revealing that friends told it that big wars like the one against the Taliban were brought to this world by an unmanned aerial stork, Afghanistan went on to question whether small wars were created by God, the CIA, or by some other means.

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