BattlelandKorea
That’s the word from Austin Ramzy in Beijing on Time’s Global Spin blog:
…the ballistic bust does not mean that North Korean threat has lessened significantly. The isolated authoritarian state still possesses significant conventional artillery with which it could attack Seoul, just 55 km south of the demilitarized zone that
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BattlelandMilitary Health
This chart comes from a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday. It’s funny how some Pentagon costs seemed to have turned on their afterburners in the wake of 9/11.
“The American public's patience for this war is over. It's done. And so the sooner we leave, the better….It was a dream that you could take an area of the world that wasn't a functioning country and turn it into a functioning country on the timelines required to satisfy the American public…the American public will not sustain a long war. It's just not in their nature.”
BattlelandJapan
TOKYO – You could almost hear the collective “Aw, damn,” from Japan’s Ministry of Defense Friday as a North Korean missile broke up soon after takeoff and plopped into the sea. Japan spends about $5 billion a year on missile defense and had mobilized forces throughout the country to shoot the missile down if it strayed …
BattlelandMissile Defense
After weeks of hype and warnings that the North Korean launch could send rocket debris raining down on U.S. allies including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, Pyongyang’s Unha-3 rocket failed shortly after takeoff and …
BattlelandProcurement
Once again, there’s something – no one will say just what – that the Air Force’s $15 million Massive Ordnance Penetrator can’t do, or can’t do well enough. That’s the 15-ton, Boeing-built bomb the U.S. now has on hand to use against deeply-buried bunkers in places like Iran.
On Thursday, the Air Force awarded this …
“We were initially briefed there would be 10 to 15 possible insurgents in the area…And what we found out after the fact -- once we got back -- after analyzing the intelligence, that there was over a hundred that had moved into the area during the fight.”
BattlelandArmy
The Army has just surveyed more than 40,000 of its people about how it’s faring, and gives itself an A, or something pretty close to it.
The Army Profession (AP) Campaign Annual Report (where do they come up with such titles?) spells out how the service has been able to come through more than a decade of war pretty much intact. There …
“Death Star Dinosaur Aliens Could Rule Galaxy”
“They'll go dead about the time that we wake up.”
BattlelandMilitary Personnel
A career website has just issued a ranking of 200 jobs from best to worst. They range from software engineer (#1, the best) to lumberjack (#200, the worst). Their placement is purportedly based on each job’s environment, physical demands, income, stress and future prospects (reporter: #196. That high?). Here are the three …
