BattlelandProcurement
That’s a nautical term, but it can apply to the skies as well. The Pentagon’s new aviation-spending plan shows that the number of warplanes in its inventory will be “relatively constant” from now until 2022. It’s going to cost us $770 billion over the coming decade to maintain a force of this size, which includes a 50% …
BattlelandMilitary Training
After 12 years without a crash of its cherished V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, the Marines lost one Wednesday in Morocco. The accident killed two of the four Marines aboard during a training exercise, and the other two were severely …
“There's about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party.”
BattlelandMilitary History
TOKYO – It’s not clear if anyone appreciates the irony, but Japan wants to help pay for a new U.S. military base on Tinian island, a former Imperial Army stronghold from which the atomic bombings of Japan were launched in …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
The Los Angeles Times’ story last weekend on “our medicated military” reactivated the long-standing debate about Soldiers and other Service members being prescribed anti-depressants and other psychiatric medications while on …
BattlelandMilitary Women
The perpetual problem of sexual assault in the ranks sometimes seems akin to white noise – a force of nature that tends to blend into the background because, you believe, it has always been there (this report from the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday only reinforces that feeling). Then you stumble across a letter …
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
Speaking of nuclear weapons: if the experts can’t agree, what help is there for the rest of us?
The former director of Sandia National Laboratories, one of the nation’s nuclear-weapon development centers, said the …
BattlelandJapan
That was headline Tuesday in the Japan Times on the prospect that the Japanese military will be able to do anything to protect Japanese citizens if the North Korean rocket launch slated for later this week goes astray. The article notes it was comments from a Pentagon official that debris could fall on Japan or elsewhere in the …
BattlelandMilitary Women
I received an email from a doctoral student at the University of West Florida who is writing her dissertation on women military careerists born between 1940 and 1955. As a result, she has spent a good amount of time talking to retired service women, as well as visiting the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. She …
BattlelandMilitary
With George Zimmerman’s lawyers bailing on him Tuesday, the killer of Florida teen-ager Trayvon Martin seems to be a story that won’t go away any time soon. It also has triggered an interesting commentary from Jon Soltz, …
BattlelandDrones
