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Analyst: National Guard Not Designed for Iraq War

NPR
Published March 18, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

David McGinnis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses the status of the National Guard. The Guard makes up about one-third of the troops in Iraq, and McGinnis says that it was not designed for this kind of war.

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