BattlelandNuclear Weapons
Interesting to read the back-and-forth between Robert Zarate of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and Kingston Reif of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, over how big the U.S. nuclear stockpile should be.
It …
“There's no article that comes into 'Foreign Affairs' that can't benefit from being cut 10%, for instance. And I assume the defense budget is the same way.”
BattlelandProcurement
The Army is the nation’s ground-pounding force. It flies helicopters, but it leaves most of the fixed-wing fun to the Air Force, Navy and Marines (cf. F-35, which is being flown by those three services, but not the …
Led by a USAF B-52 bomber, aircraft from the U.S. Japan and Australia fly Feb. 5 over the Pacific Ocean.
The network was on the Carnival Triumph story like flies on, um, the Carnival Triumph.
U.S. nuclear weapons strategy remains largely based on a confrontation with the Soviet Union that no longer exists.
There is an emerging bipartisan and military consensus that it is time for an updated strategy and that a …
U.S. companies have spent $219 billion on mergers and acquisitions so far in 2013, a sharp increase from 2012, when firms spent just $85 billion during the same period.
BattlelandPolitics
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew home to California late Thursday, but unfortunately – for him – his job went with him, too.
He was hoping that the Senate would confirm former Republican senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska …
With the remains of suspected cop-killer Christopher Jordan Dorner positively identified, a police department with a complicated history with minority communities reaches out
With the stricken ‘Carnival Triumph’ nearing the end of its five-day ordeal, a question persists: Why weren’t all passengers taken somewhere that had working toilets?
BattlelandWar Story
We’re not going to use the name of the female Army officer who did this recent formal Army interview following her two deployments to Iraq.
But we came across it, and felt it was worth sharing:
The reason I haven’t …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Marine Major Aric “Walleye” Liberman was uncharacteristically modest for a Navy SEAL turned fighter pilot. He had just landed an F-35–one of the 2,457 jets the Pentagon plans to buy for $400 billion, making it the costliest …
The push to legalize pot migrates from the margins to the mainstream, mellowing some Republicans in the process.
