BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
This week, the American Psychiatric Association is meeting in Philadelphia. Among the presentations in the “military track”—a spate of meetings directed towards practitioners focused on military or war related psychology and psychiatry—the top listed presentation is titled “Combat Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?” Based on …
BattlelandIran
The sanctions the rest of the world is imposing against Iran apparently are beginning to bite. The latest evidence: Tehran’s complaint that Google Maps recently stopped labeling the Persian Gulf the Persian Gulf. But the search-engine giant isn’t changing its name to the Arabian Gulf, like Arab states – and the U.S. Navy – do. …
BattlelandVeterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs first-ever large-scale study of homeless vets shows that the vast majority of homeless vets have mental disorders. “Majorities of the newly homeless diagnosed with mental disorders…were …
Whatever the Supreme Court’s decision on Arizona’s controversial law, it should be a wake-up call about why American immigration policy must be established on a national — not state — level
BattlelandArmy
Command Sergeant Major Teresa King – relieved of command of the service’s drill-sergeant school at Fort Jackson, S.C., last November – was reinstated Friday, only days before she is set to relinquish command. The Army …
BattlelandWar Story
Army Major Tyler Andersen served in Iraq in 2007 and 2008, and reflected on his service there in a January 2012 interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here are some highlights:
Like what’s spoken at the COIN Academy and something I’ve kept with me, the three Bs: be kind, be courteous, and be prepared
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BattlelandAfghanistan
The U.S. has abandoned its just-finished consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif after spending $80 million outfitting the former hotel as a symbol of U.S. resoluteness. This is the kind of fiasco that tends to …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Arthur Herman is one of those scholars who grips the past and just won’t let go, which is lucky for those of us stuck in the present. In these days where attention spans are collapsing into overflowing rivers of data, every once in awhile you need a historian to point out what’s important.
Herman’s new book, Freedom’s Forge: …
BattlelandClose-up
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
“These days, it takes only seconds for one picture to suddenly become an international headline. And those headlines can impact the mission we’re engaged in, they can put your fellow service members at risk, they can hurt morale, and they can damage our standing in the world.”
BattlelandCool Military Acronyms
…otherwise know as the Army’s Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise. Or, as the Army says:
The Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise (EAGLE) program will be used to procure logistics services requirements, primarily Material Maintenance Services, Retail/Wholesale Supply Services and Transportation Support Services in support
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BattlelandLogistics
We don’t mind razzing the Navy when it comes to Breathalyzers for sailors, or its increasingly strange ship-naming practices, so it seems only fair to tip our cover when warranted. The Government Accountability Office notes in …
