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The cover article The New American Way of War in Time on Dec 11th 2017 mentions that the reliance on Special Operations was born of necessity. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks showed that tanks,aircraft carriers and the deployment of tens of thousands of conventional forces could no longer protect the U.S. as they had during the Cold War. Special Operations forces now make up nearly all U.S. combat casualties, despite making up less than 5% of the total force.

最新一期的美国《时代》周刊题为《美国战争新方式》的封面文章提到，美国的特种作战应运而生。“9·11”袭击表明，与冷战时代的做法不同——坦克、航母以及数十万常规部队的部署再也无法保护美国的安全。目前美军战斗伤亡人数几乎都来自占军队总人数不到5%的特种作战部队。

The article with the title saying There’s a Third-World America that No One Notices in Washingtonpost on Dec 2nd,2017, mentioned that in the “colonias”of the American Southwest, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens have lived without running water for decades. The flooding and generally poor sanitary conditions lead to flourishing diseases . Colonias have high rates of diseases rarely found in developed countries, such as tuberculosis, typhoid and dysentery. Lawmakers only kick into gear when news of cholera spreads and newspaper headlines describe colonias as “third world.” Then they pull back slowly as pressure dies down.That’s typical of government responses to colonias.

2017年12月2日的《华盛顿邮报》刊登一篇题为《无人注意到的第三世界的美国》的文章称，美国西南部社区有几十万人数十年来都没有自来水。洪水及糟糕的卫生条件导致疾病横行，像肺结核、伤寒和痢疾这些在发达国家罕见的疾病在这里发病率很高。只有“第三世界”这样的字眼见诸于报纸标题，立法者们才会有所作为。而当媒体关注减退时，解决措施则很难落地。这就是美国政府对这个问题的典型反应。