BattlelandPolitics
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Hard to figure out what’s worse – a soldier violating formal and long-standing Pentagon rules by cheering on GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul while in uniform, or those insisting that his interview with CNN was cut off because the network (part of the Time …
BattlelandMilitary Women
BattlelandNational Guard
I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.
The sentiment is usually attributed to Groucho Marx, but as of this week it works for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, too.
BattlelandMilitary Women
Over at Time’s Ideas blog, a pair of academics urges that women be compelled to register for the draft. Military recruiters use such registration lists to prospect for young talent. That, in turn, would put more females in …
BattlelandWeapons
Remember in the good ol’ days of bullets and bombs, when the military’s weapons were designed to kill bad guys? Things have gotten a lot foggier in today’s world of poorly-acting civilians, starving children, and assorted …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
There’s going to be a raft of books on the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and one of the first is a fascinating look at a pivot point in naval warfare. In Knights of the Sea, author David Hanna breathes life into the …
BattlelandChina
Nice piece in the New York Times on Tuesday, previewing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s much-anticipated announcement of almost a half-trillion in defense cuts over the next decade.As Mark Thompson just noted, not a whole lot …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
So this is the week where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is going to give us a peek into where he wants to cut $450 billion in military spending over the coming decade. It’s the lead story in the New York Times Tuesday morning, …
BattlelandAir Force
Major Kale Mosley was getting ready to board his KC-135 refueling tanker for Iraq last June when a commander pulled him aside. He was being fired as of Nov. 30, contrary to a long-standing Pentagon policy that lets officers stay …
BattlelandRussia
It is hard now to recall the electricity that surged through Washington, D.C., when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev first visited late in 1987, and jumped out of his limousine right in front of Time’s Washington bureau. Reported …
After steady jumps over each of the past four years in the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan, 2011 brought a welcome decline. After peaking at 499 dead in 2010, last year ended with 418 killed, according to iCasualties.org.
The key question is what the reduction means. Some U.S. officers say the allied forces have broken …
BattlelandPentagon
You make them, I make them, we all make them…but few of us keep them. In keeping with the seasonal delusion, let’s imagine our favorite world’s biggest office building is a sensate creature, and suffered shortcomings and …
