BattlelandMilitary Spending
…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.”
BattlelandClose-up
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
BattlelandAfghanistan
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 …
BattlelandVeterans
When the war in Afghanistan began ten years ago, some of the most grievously wounded troops have come through Brooke Army Medical Center, a sprawling green campus less than 10 miles from downtown San Antonio.
BAMC, as the troops call it, has long been home to the Department of Defense’s top burn unit. Then 2007, 600,000 people donated …
“I really misspoke, to be candid with you…I didn't mean to make that kind of an impression…I did not mean to impugn the military...I misspoke on that front.”
BattlelandVeterans
In March, like everyone else operating in the mil-writer space, I decided it was my duty to God and to country to pen a piece on the maddening and tragic Kandahar massacre. So I did, and thanks to the fine people at …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
If – and it’s a big if — Staff Sergeant Robert Bales became psychotic after taking mefloquine, it wouldn’t be the first time. In fact, there have been confirmed cases of psychosis and aggression in Afghanistan directly …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, was here in Washington two weeks ago saying the U.S. and the Afghan government are making progress in their decade-long battle with the Taliban. “We remain on track to ensure that Afghanistan will no longer be a safe haven for al-Qaida and will no longer be terrorized by …
BattlelandAir Force
At noon Thursday, Air Force officials said their F-22 fighters are ready for war despite pilots’ repeated breathing problems that may have played a role in a fatal crash and continue despite a seven-month probe into the vexing …
