Turkey for the Troops

Sixty years of Thanksgivings for American soldiers abroad.

BY KEVIN BARON, J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Above, then-Secretary of Defense William Perry cuts the first piece of a massive sheet cake at Camp Olden in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Nov. 28, 1996.

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Kevin Baron is a national security reporter and J. Dana Stuster is a researcher for Foreign Policy.