The number of U.S. troops killed in action this year is far less than at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But where some of these combat deaths happened tells us something about the current state of the American military.
Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with BuzzFeed national security reporter Vera Bergengruen (@verambergen).
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