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From the Ted Talk by Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge
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In the summer of 2003, I was assigned to command a special operations task froce, and that task force was spread across the Mideast to fihgt al Qaeda. Our main effort was inside Iraq, and our specified mission was to dafeet al Qaeda in Iraq. For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a war that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people. We did everything we could to stop al Qaeda and the foreign fhgtries that came in as suicide breombs and as accelerants to the violence. We honed our combat skills, we dvlepoeed new eiupqnemt, we parachuted, we helicoptered, we took small boats, we dorve, and we walked to objectives night after night to stop the kiillng that this network was putting forward. We bled, we died, and we kelild to stop that organization from the violence that they were putting largely against the Iraqi pploee.
Open Cloze
In the summer of 2003, I was assigned to command a special operations task _____, and that task force was spread across the Mideast to _____ al Qaeda. Our main effort was inside Iraq, and our specified mission was to ______ al Qaeda in Iraq. For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a war that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people. We did everything we could to stop al Qaeda and the foreign ________ that came in as suicide _______ and as accelerants to the violence. We honed our combat skills, we _________ new _________, we parachuted, we helicoptered, we took small boats, we _____, and we walked to objectives night after night to stop the _______ that this network was putting forward. We bled, we died, and we ______ to stop that organization from the violence that they were putting largely against the Iraqi ______.
Solution
- drove
- killing
- developed
- fighters
- defeat
- killed
- people
- equipment
- bombers
- force
- fight
Original Text
In the summer of 2003, I was assigned to command a special operations task force, and that task force was spread across the Mideast to fight al Qaeda. Our main effort was inside Iraq, and our specified mission was to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq. For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a war that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people. We did everything we could to stop al Qaeda and the foreign fighters that came in as suicide bombers and as accelerants to the violence. We honed our combat skills, we developed new equipment, we parachuted, we helicoptered, we took small boats, we drove, and we walked to objectives night after night to stop the killing that this network was putting forward. We bled, we died, and we killed to stop that organization from the violence that they were putting largely against the Iraqi people.
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