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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.

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

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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.

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