BattlelandMilitary Women
American women, no longer mere accoutrements in the U.S. military machine, are increasingly becoming vital cogs.
A pair of unrelated, but connected, incidents drove that point home to Battleland in recent days.
First of …
U.S. soldiers move into a village with a suspected weapons cache March 3 in Kandahar Province.
Question: The monthly job reports are usually accompanied by a statement that we need lots of new jobs just to keep up with population growth. Since large numbers of baby boomers are now retiring, however, wouldn’t this have a complete offsetting effect for the next 15 years or so? Submitted by JohnnyOh
Answer: There are basically …
BattlelandMilitary Women
Pregnancy — especially in the Navy — has become the newest “hot button” issue.
Well, truth be told, it’s not really new.The topic of women getting pregnant while on sea duty have been around since women first were …
BattlelandAir Force
If the Air Force wanted to keep its folks slim and trim, perhaps it shouldn’t base thousands of them at a place called Grand Forks.
The service announced Wednesday that it has relieved Colonel Tim Bush, commander of the …
Ed DeMarco may not strike you as the kind of man who is capable of fanning the outrage of broad swaths of the American …
BattlelandAsia-Pacific
TOKYO – The U.S. pivot toward Asia – and the potential for confrontation with China – became a little more real this week with the arrival of a new class of warship designed to fight in coastal waters.
The USS Freedom …
Obama should cave on tax hikes to achieve his other goals.
BattlelandTechnology
One thing the war in Afghanistan has taught the Pentagon: even the lightest of U.S. forces — that would be the Marine Corps – relies too much on fuel to keep its generators humming to keep its lights, air conditioners and …
In operation from 1934 through 1963, the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was once considered the world’s most secure, holding notorious criminals like Al Capone, Robert “Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud, George …
When George W. Bush became President in January 2001, American policy towards Iraq was in free fall and the United Nations sanctions against Saddam’s regime, in place since the first Gulf War, were in tatters.
By early 2003, …
“For a long time, war with Iraq was discussed inside the Bush administration as something that would be decided at some point in the future; then, somewhere along the way, war with Iraq was discussed as something that had already been decided long ago in the past.”
BattlelandKorea
The U.S. embassy in Seoul tweeted this photograph of a B-52 bomber and all its firepower several hours ago.
The dispatch came after North Korea warned of “strong military counter-action” if the U.S. again flies the bombers …
