(2) Develop and apply strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, and information literacy

~ MARTIN E. DEMPSEY s a retired four-star general in the United States Army and served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2011 to 2015, He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. During his military career, he served in the Gulf War and the Iraq War, and was awarded the Bronze S Alt + Left Arrow Merit, and the aLuy ooar. 7 etired from the US Army, Dempsey served as the chairman of USA Basketball Distinguished Service from 2017 to 2020, This essay appeared in the Atlantic in 2021, DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM, after Iraq's Republican Guard had been forced out of Kuwait, my brigade set up a checkpoint on the only highway from Kuwait to Baghdad. We established a medical treatment facility and raised the American flag. It was a signal to the oppressed population of southern Iraq. Dozens of Iraqis came to the facility each day, assured by the flag that they would be safe. I kept that flag, and today it hangs in my office, framed with a photograph of the R T L R