U.S. is off war footing at year's end, but wars go on

President Barack Obama pauses while delivering the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014 on May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. Last spring, Obama described to the newly minted Army officers at West Point how "the landscape has changed" after a decade of war. He cited the then-dwindling conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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