2011 Military World Games A Precursor to 2016 Olympics

Sharla Alexander was having a great time in Hyderabad, India. As the logistics coordinator for the U.S. Armed Forces women's soccer squad at the fourth Military World Games in 2007, Alexander was aglow with "Friendship Through Sport" - the motto of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM), the Games' organizing body.

Sharla Alexander was having a great time in Hyderabad, India. As the logistics coordinator for the U.S. Armed Forces women's soccer squad at the fourth Military World Games in 2007, Alexander was aglow with "Friendship Through Sport" - the motto of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM), the Games' organizing body. She had breakfast one morning with her counterpart from, of all places, North Korea, one of President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," a tiny nuclear power in the hands of a dictator and a constant burr under the saddle of the U.S. and its allies.

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