BattlelandMilitary Spending
Countdown to Sequestration: Eight Months to Go
We began Battleland’s countdown to sequestration a month ago. As of Wednesday, we’re 11% closer to the end of the Pentagon as we know it. That’s slated to happen, according to this provision of the so-called Budget Control Act:
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BattlelandDrones
Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
At least that’s the word from Air Force Major Dave Blair – himself an MQ-1 Predator instructor pilot – in the latest issue of Air & Space Power Journal. As technology changes warfare, he argues, the military needs to …
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F-22 Modernization: Breaking the Sound (Spending) Barrier
The general thinking among the human race is that we get smarter, over time. But this chart, from a new Government Accountability Office report into the Air Force’s F-22 program, suggests otherwise. It contrasts differences …
BattlelandSpecial Operations
Operation Neptune Spear: The New Textbook for Special Operators
One year removed from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, hundreds of hours of programing and print pages are being devoted to to telling us what it all means. In this week’s issue of TIME, journalist Peter Bergen and historian …
BattlelandPresident Obama
A Sad Anniversary Celebration
It’s sad that what should be a day of quiet satisfaction – the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, the killer of nearly 3,000 innocents – has degenerated into a political spitball fight.
Battleland well …
“Since ending the `stand-down' in September, the Air Force now requires every F-22 pilot to fly with a pulse oximeter strapped to a finger, measuring oxygen saturation in the blood.”
Not Afghanistan
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How U.S. Commanders Deal With Their Military Allies
We’re all familiar with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance.
Well, over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has come up with a similar construct detailing the six stages U.S. military commanders go through in their dealings with their local counterparts in …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
PTSD: Treatments That Work
The recently-issued policy on screening and treating PTSD from the Army’s Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) is dense, specific and should be helpful in advancing the field of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis and …
BattlelandProcurement
The Pentagon’s Million-Dollar Aviation Plan
The Pentagon’s new, high-flying 30-year aircraft-buying blueprint – the Annual Aviation Inventory and Funding Plan Fiscal Years (FY) 2013-2042 – makes for depressing reading.
No, not because it predicts the loss of U.S. …