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General John Allen, a former US commander in Afghanistan and now President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the international coalition fighting the Islamic State, argues that we cannot know how many Americans have not been kidnapped because the group knows that it will not receive ransoms for them.

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But then a couple of years later, when I was a company commander, I went out to the National Training Center.

And I saw my battalion commander, because I had let him down.

Perhaps, but these ideas are all just variations on God controlling everything, the supreme commander toying with expendable units in a great campaign.

In May 2009, General Kevin Chilton, commander of the U.S. nuclear forces, stated that in the event of cyberattacks against the U.S., all options would be on the table.

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