Raw Story: Mind Games, Part 1

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Mind_Games_Will_military_own_up_1024.html

The Same administration that many claim sent US troops overseas without sufficient intelligence, planning, numbers, or armor is equally unprepared to deal with the war's psychic toll on service, Raw Story has learned.

A former commander-in-chief describes today's overextended, under equipped military as nearing the "braking point".

In Afghanistan, insurgent attacks and bombings are surging this year, as the Tali ban rapidly regains power and popularity.

In Iraq. where US troops are, by the administration's own admission,struggling unsuccessfully with an increasingly bloody insurgency, US and civilian casualties are rising by the day. Last week the Associated Press reported that this month is on track to be the deadliest one of the war yet.It is already since November 2004, when 92 American Marines were killed and another 500 wounded over the course of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah.