Here in the US, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Peter Pace, spoke at the National Defense University in Washington, following on President Bush's speech yesterday about how to win the war.

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Gary Solis is a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University.

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His work has taken him from Ohio to the Americorps to New Hampshire to Stanford University to England to South Africa to the Marine Corps to Washington, DC.

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