Interesting video posted by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism tracking the U.S. drone rain over Pakistan since 9/11.
It’s hard to comprehend just how big a war the U.S. has waged clandestinely in that …
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Foiling the Recoil
Troops train with a Carl Gustav Recoilless rifle system in Washer district of Helmand province, March 23.
Watching Kennedy: The Court’s Swing Voter Offers Clues to a Gay-Marriage Ruling
Justice Anthony Kennedy will be at the center of one of the great historic civil rights debates of our lifetimes
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Wishful Spending
There is a growing sense among defense-budget watchers that the U.S. military and its political masters are pretending the shave the armed forces just got from sequestration’s blade isn’t going to lead to decapitation in what …
“The reason for my recent journey was my own doing. So please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply I regret -- and apologize for -- the circumstances that led to my resignation from the CIA and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters.”
— Former Army general and CIA chief David Petraeus Tuesday night at a California ROTC dinner. They were his first public remarks since November's revelation that he had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, that led him to resign from the U.S. government.
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Cal Whipple, 1918-2013
A.B.C. “Cal” Whipple was Time-Life’s Battleland a decade before Battleland was born, and 70 years before this Battleland blog was created.
He did what needed to be done to bring home the horrors of war to the American …
Pride and Prejudice: An Interactive Timeline of the Fight for Gay Rights
From the first gay-rights organization to the battle for marriage equality, TIME looks at the history of the gay-rights movement
Divided: Same-Sex Marriage Demonstrations
As the Supreme Court of the United States hears two cases in the appeals to state and federal laws restricting same-sex marriage, supporters and opponents demonstrate to support their views.
Breaking the Mold in Prosthetic Arms
Few entrepreneurs can claim as intimate a connection to their products as Jonathan Kuniholm. As an engineer working at the forefront of some of the latest research to improve prosthetic arms, Kuniholm discovered that the efforts …
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Drones ≠ Cheap
It was just over a year ago that Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was scrapping one version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone after the Defense Department discovered it was cheaper to fly such missions …
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“Dwarfed by the Magnitude of the Problems”
That’s the grim bottom line of a major new study in the state of post-9/11 veterans released Tuesday morning by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the prestigious and independent National Academy of Sciences.
“Although …
Today’s Defense Leaders: “Too Steeped in Old Ways”
Perhaps the greatest Western ideal, apparent in our literature, economics, and theology — to name just a few areas — is the belief that loss energizes new life.
Ernest Hemingway depicted the simple paradox of war in For …
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A Marine scout sniper adjusts his M40A5 rifle before heading out on a mission in Helmand Province Mar. 23.