BattlelandMilitary Spending
Well, here it is. The guts of the Pentagon’s share of sequestration, as detailed in a letter late Friday to congressional leaders from Jeffrey Zients, the deputy director for management of the White House’s Office of Management …
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With the sad and all-too predictable guilty plea Thursday from PFC Bradley Manning for turning over reams of classified data to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks — and the resulting flood of media attention — it came as a …
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Danny Klaidman of the now all-digital Newsweek says that’s what it is. The Marine four-star general, after getting good marks for his stewardship in Afghanistan, finds himself wounded by an I-Email-D just as he is slated to …
A memo recently went out to the military’s technology and contracting community, encouraging them to “request requirements relief” in situations where the cost of satisfying a requirement exceeds the benefit. This guidance …
Although the President was directly involved in the government’s choice to enter the case, he is curiously silent on expanding the California ruling to states that don’t allow civil unions.
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Air Force Lieut. General Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program manager, certainly raised eyebrows the other day with his comments in Australia about the $400 billion program he is running:
“What I see [F-35 builder] Lockheed …
As budget officials wrestle with the sequester, the next cliff is already looming, just weeks away.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Robert Wolfe provides rooftop security during a meeting in Farah City, Feb. 25.
The number of Hispanics who identify as Catholic in the U.S. have dropped four percent over the past four years, while Hispanic Protestants are on the rise.
The tailor returned with clothes in brown paper wrapping. I took the package and dressed in my room. The voluminous pants were forest green, perhaps a yard wide, but it could be tied with a stout piece of cord through the pants …
ABU DUHOOR, Syria — Em Joseph doesn’t really look like many of the women in this socially conservative stretch of Syria‘s Idlib province, and she certainly doesn’t act like them. Instead of the traditional hijab, or …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Well, two predicted disasters in one week, and neither has yet to materialize.
New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been in office since Wednesday, and the nation’s military remains in business, contrary to the twaddle some …
“F-35 flight operations have been cleared to resume.”
