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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, soon to step down, addresses the troops during a visit to Kandahar airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 13. (Associated Press)
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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was forced to resign as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan in July 2010, presumably will tell about that and more from his 38-year career in his memoir, “My Share of the Task,” coming out Monday.
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Charles and Caroline Brennikmeyer of Falls Church, Va. hug their dad, Maj. Oscar Brennikmeyer, U.S. Air Force, after he arrives on a military charter flight home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Friday was Charles' 14th birthday, and he said having his dad home was the best birthday gift ever. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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Charles and Caroline Brennikmeyer of Falls Church, Va. hug their dad, Maj. Oscar Brennikmeyer, U.S. Air Force, after he arrives on a military charter flight home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Friday was Charles' 14th birthday, and he said having his dad home was the best birthday gift ever. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Job W. Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., died on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2012, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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Afghan police stand guard outside police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, where an American adviser was killed, authorities said, by an Afghan policewoman on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Policemen and firefighters investigate the scene of a burning market in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. Hundreds of shops at a market were damaged in the blaze, but no causalities were reported. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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** FILE ** U.S. Army Sgt. William Womack, 23, of Batesville, Ga., of the 118th Military Police Company, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., is prone during a training session for the Afghan National Police at a combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province in 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Afghan security men inspect the scene of a car bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, outside a compound housing a U.S. military contractor. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, has been a trooper on foreign policy for President Obama, flying to Afghanistan and Pakistan many times to discuss diplomatic issues. (Associated Press)
