James Dao

In a debate that has focused largely on women, this fact is often overlooked: The majority of service members who are sexually assaulted each year are men.

In the two decades since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, medical researchers have struggled to explain a mysterious amalgam of problems in thousands of Gulf War veterans, including joint pain, physical malaise and gastrointestinal disorders. In some medical circles, the symptoms were thought to be psychological, the result of combat stress.