BattlelandWar Story
Army Major Bryan Bowlsbey spent much of 2006 and 2007 in Iraq as a logistics officer with a unit from the Illinois Army National Guard unit. He became frustrated with the hidebound nature of a military force at war.
Bowlsbey spoke about his deployment in this recently-posted May interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort …
BattlelandNational Security
It’s the dog days of summer, which means the sun is en fuego and bodies are sweating en masse. Which, pardon my Greek, sucks. Yes, I know it’s hotter in Baghdad and more sweltering in Kandahar with 80 pounds of gear on. Spare
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The first in a series in which The Hechinger Report is teaming up with TIME to examine what’s behind the woeful performance of Mississippi’s schoolchildren, as well as possible solutions to help them catch up
A funny thing happened after the Supreme Court handed down a split decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law. All the key players won — even the ones who lost.
BattlelandSyria
With the assassinations last week the regime’s intelligence chief and the defense and interior ministers, the appeal of becoming Target Number One is dwindling. “There’s really no one in the regime that the opposition would …
BattlelandJapan
China’s newest military garrison in the contentious South China Sea is largely a political show and won’t significantly raise the threat of armed confrontation in the region. Which is not saying much, since that threat is …
A dramatic video of cops suppressing a local protest against an earlier shooting has spiraled into controversy and a spotlight on how the police do their business in a minority community.
BattlelandVeterans
I remember very clearly the moment I knew I would be leaving the Army. It came in late 2007, a few months before I shipped out on my second Iraq tour. This was nearly five years into the Iraq War and the Army, which had also been …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Despite decades of efficiency efforts designed to wring every flabby dollar from Pentagon spending, the cost of fielding one active-duty airman, sailor, soldier or Marine continues to climb.
The $57,000 it cost to field a troop in 1980 ballooned to $217,000 in 2010 — not including inflation. Sure, as the Congressional Budget Office …
A TIME reporter (and part-time substitute teacher) talks about the legacy of Columbine in schools — and how little of that can be transferred to emergencies in public places.
