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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.

Syrian hackers took over the Army's website in 2009 and this soldier just noticed

THE PENTAGON — Intelligence officials have just informed Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno that the Syrian Electronic Army took over the US Army's primary website www.army.mil in 2009 and has been operating the Army's homepage since then.

Odierno was stunned. Reached for comment via AOL Instant Messenger, he said, "We should have noticed the signs of foreign influence. The army.mil content writers barely have any command of the English language, the depressing layout causes an instant loss of morale, and nobody can remember the last time the website had any relevance."

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