BattlelandMilitary Spending
You knew that was coming, right? Just didn’t think the Navy and Air Force would have enough sense of humor about it to make it effective April 1.
The Air Force Thunderbirds, here, are the precision flyboys who put their …
A Seabee uses an entrenching tool and backhoe to cut a cake in honor of the Seabees’ 71st birthday, Mar. 5.
As rising tuition and mounting student debt makes prospective income a bigger part of choosing a major, humanities disciplines such as philosophy and history are under attack in favor of such fields as engineering and business, …
Tourists have been known to spend good money on a wide range of thrilling, only-on-vacation activities. Target practice with an assault weapon can now be added to the list.
Obama’s grassroots army, Organizing for Action, refuses unlimited funds from corporations just when Business Forward expands its efforts.
BattlelandMilitary
I was approached by Foreign Policy magazine back in January to pen one of their “Think Again” columns, this one focusing on the future of war.
The notion was, now that America has disengaged from Iraq and is doing the same …
BattlelandWeapons
There’s a new and disquieting Pentagon report on the troubled $400 billion tri-service F-35 fighter.
It includes stunning pilot comments about the aircraft’s survivability (“Aft visibility will get the pilot gunned [down] …
A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing.
Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeared during the first months of the nine-year war that was sparked when …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
One thing Battleland has learned over many years of trying to pay attention to Pentagon goings-on is that things aren’t always what they seem.
Outsiders tend to see plots and conspiracies, when in reality the U.S. military …
Simon Wessely, esteemed British psychiatrist and researcher, is now Sir Simon.
Last month, the Queen bestowed knighthood upon the 57-year-old King’s College professor for his pioneering work to improve mental health services …
BattlelandProcurement
When the Government Accountability Office announced Tuesday, here, that the Navy erred when it awarded an aircraft-maintenance contract, Battleland wondered why.
The service had struck a deal with L-3 Communications Vertex …
For all the headlines devoted to the event, you’d think this was a really big deal.
