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Inside the paid Sunday Reader. The full edition is included with Supporter; free readers may receive a preview.

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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.

REPORT: 2.6 million Americans traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan to fight Guerilla wars

NEW YORK — Nearly three million Americans joined jihadist conflicts in the Middle East over the past decade, according to a massive joint investigation conducted by The Huffington Post, Salon and The New York Times.

Traveling in large groups by plane and even by boat, extremist groups have apparently infiltrated various cities and provinces in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. It was unclear what caused such a large movement of terrorists into the region.

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