Opinion: DSLACC? Or Defense secretary left-arm casualty complex?

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Our colleague Frank James over at the Swamp makes an interesting point today.

What’s going on with left-arm injuries to noncombatant secretaries of Defense?

And it’s a bipartisan deal too. Frank explains the reasons.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo credits: (top): Robert Gates. J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press; (bottom): Donald Rumsfeld. Win McNamee / Reuters