BattlelandR&D
The Marines like to joke that they break down doors, while the Army seeks to sign a lease with the property owner. Completely false, of course, but with enough scent of truth to it that it generates smiles among leathernecks and …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The Pentagon has its own news agency – the American Forces Press Service — which churns out stories every day of interest to the millions of those working for the U.S. military, both in and out of uniform. They’re read …
BattlelandPeople
For years, the news has been full of the seemingly ever-increasing Army suicide rate, well known to readers here at Battleland. There is good news and bad news:
Bad news: the suicide rate is unacceptably high.
Good news: we …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Given the U.S. military’s dire financial straits – it can’t send a carrier to the Persian Gulf to check Iran’s ambitions, for example – you might be surprised to learn the Army is seeking to buy a fleet of 130 used cars …
Lance Cpl. Richard Carmichael burns trash on Forward Operating Base Zeebrudge in Helmand province, March 6.
After a disappointing presidential election with establishment candidate Mitt Romney, the Conservative Political Action Committee looks to its libertarians for resurrection.
BattlelandDrones
On Tuesday, an MQ-1 Predator drone was hanging out over the Persian Gulf, eyeballing items of interest in Iran.
As the Pentagon detailed it Thursday:
On March 12, an unarmed, unmanned, MQ-1 U.S. military aircraft conducting …
The normally secretive private equity industry spent 2012 in the spotlight thanks to Mitt Romney‘s ill-fated presidential run, and some of these firms appear to be capitalizing on all the free press they received — literally.
That’s right, the publicly traded private equity firm Carlyle Group — whose funds were once open only to the …
This is a month for painful anniversaries. It is 10 years since the start of the benighted war in Iraq. It is also one year since March 11, 2012, the day Staff Sergeant Robert Bales allegedly massacred 16 civilians in the Panjwai …
Myth #1 – “It’s about women in combat.”
No, it’s not. Women are already in combat, and are serving well and professionally. The issue should be more clearly entitled, “Women in the infantry.” And this is a …
