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Giving new meaning to the phrase “glamour shoot,” Erin Simpson, the Nicole Kidman of counterinsurgency, is learning to handle an M-16 before deploying to Afghanistan. Read all about it. Speaking of military small arms, the Woodstock of that world is coming up. Here is the one-stop shopping about hot new apps for MK-19 grenades, and ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Giving new meaning to the phrase “glamour shoot,” Erin Simpson, the Nicole Kidman of counterinsurgency, is learning to handle an M-16 before deploying to Afghanistan. Read all about it.

Speaking of military small arms, the Woodstock of that world is coming up. Here is the one-stop shopping about hot new apps for MK-19 grenades, and such.

Snipers following the Battle of Königsberg/wikicommons

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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