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Paper dated September, 2007. This report presents a composite picture of the impacts of the Global War on Terror on those who have fought it. It relies where possible on the troops own words, both citizen-soldiers and active-duty military personnel. Th e study focuses largely but not exclusively on the experiences of members in the National Guard, citizen-soldiers being a particularly illuminating ... read morebellwether of issues associated with the Global War on Terror. The core message is that the fi rst-hand experience of fighting in the Global War on Terrorfulfilling and satisfying for some, searing and traumatic for many, daunting and unsettling for mostraises issues of policy and practice that have only begun to be pondered. These include the high costspersonal and social, direct and indirect, financial and institutionalof the current approach to tackling terrorism, the need for more energetic efforts to re-integrate returning veterans into American society, the viability of continuing to respond to future threats of a divisive political nature with all-volunteer forces, and the future of the National Guard as an institutionread less
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