BattlelandSpecial Operations
Nice Work If You Can Get It
First award listed in the Pentagon’s Tuesday contract announcements is a cool half-billion to buy something Battleland has never heard of, to a company Battleland has never heard of:
The company is run by a special-ops vet, who conveniently has set up shop in Tampa, home of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Wouldn’t it be …
“One senior political source said the military trumps any objections to its recommendations by warning lives will be lost if they don’t get their way.”
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The Pentagon’s Best Photographers
The U.S. military’s best “shooters” have competed to be the Military Photographer of the Year going back to 1960. Here are some of this year’s recently-announced winners.
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
Support For Japan’s Military Reaches Post-War High
TOKYO – It’s been a tough year for Japan, what with the earthquake and tsunami, North Korean nukes and China’s increasingly aggressive military. But there’s a silver lining for at least one part of Japanese society – …
BattlelandWeapons
Apparently, the F-35 Isn’t Everyone’s Cup of Airpower
…including Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., who terms the tri-service, $400 billion fighter program “the biggest example of corporate welfare in history” (although, as a member of the House’s education and natural-resources committees, he’s not going to be able to do much about it…but he does have a doctorate in physics from NYU, …
BattlelandTerrorism
A New Approach to the War on Terror?
How come after the successes in the war on terror since 9/11, it seems likes we’re still fighting the war on terror? There seems to be a bit of Lewis Carroll unfolding here:
The faster I go, the behinder I get.
Are the world’s militaries trying to fight a new enemy with old weapons? 1st Lieutenant Rogerio Paiva Cietto, a legal …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Bullets by the Billions
…the lead item (click on it to enlarge) in Monday’s contract announcement list from the Pentagon. More than $2.5 billion for bullets. Trust they’re getting the quantity discount. We’ve asked just how many bullets you get for that kind of money, and we’ll share the answer when we get it.
UPDATE: “The contract announcement …
“War is hell. War is not going to be a, you know, bowl of cherries every day.”
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Battleland Diary, March 24-30
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
BattlelandAfghanistan
The Facebook of War
Sometimes anger can spread quietly, a seething, hidden emotion that only occasionally breaks the surface – almost like a shark’s fin headed toward a crowded beach.
That’s what’s happening on Facebook in Afghanistan following the slaughter last month of 17 civilians, allegedly by Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. Time’s John Wendle …
