Offering calm amid the chaos, New Yorkers gather to grieve and reflect at the 9/11 memorial, built on the site where the Twin Towers once stood. Memorial ceremonies nationwide brought communities together to remember the fallen.
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Battling PTSD and TBI
Somehow seems fitting on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 to note that the Pentagon has just announced it is funneling $100 million into a pair of new efforts to try to find out how better to fight the scourge of post-traumatic …
“I would add more F-22s.”
BattlelandNational Security
11 Years Later: The Unquiet Hero
Watching ex-SEAL Matt Bissonnette on 60 Minutes was equal parts fascinating and disturbing.
Eleven years since the horror of 9/11, some of us watched, transfixed, as someone who gave his word never to write of what he had …
Night Patrol
Meet Karen Lewis, the Union Leader at the Center of the Chicago Teachers Strike
Fighting against the famously sharp-tongued mayor of Chicago is Karen Lewis, a relative newcomer to union leadership who now commands an army of 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s third largest school district
BattlelandAir Force
96 Seconds
It takes years to become an F-16 pilot, but only seconds to lose your plane – and perhaps your life – when things go haywire. On May 4, an Air Force pilot aboard a Viper during a routine war game over Utah ran into serious …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Military Mental Health: An Outsider Takes a Peek Inside
Marjorie Morrison is a San Diego psychologist who took time out of her busy private practice to provide “pro-active” mental-health counseling to more than 500 Marines at the recruit depot there. Such counseling removes stigma …
“I intended to do this last year, but weather prevented me from being able to land.”
Why Opposition to Gay Marriage Isn’t Swinging Minnesota Romney’s Way
A ballot initiative to define marriage as between a man and a woman has 52% popular support but that doesn’t seem to be reason enough for the Republican to commit resources to the state
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Graduating Into War
The U.S. Naval Academy’s Class of 2002 was just beginning its senior year on September 11, 2001. Thirty-three of its 965 members this week will be publishing In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and …
Obama’s Economy: The President Asks Voters to Go on Faith
BattlelandR&D
Manning Unmanned Systems
Eyes glaze over when diving deep into Defense Science Board studies, those phonebook-thick reports (today more PDF than pdf) salted through with buzz phrases (potentially unlimited persistent capabilities, bounded autonomous …