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War without end

• The conflict in Afghanistan has endured without a clear exit strategy for almost 17 years, across three U.S. presidencies.

There is also the war in Iraq, which started in 2003 and continues in a different form over the Syrian border.

More than three million Americans have served in uniform in these wars, and nearly 7,000 of them have died.

• The Times Magazine takes a long look this week at how the failure of American military campaigns has left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.