BattlelandNational Security
Nice Washington Post piece (by Greg Jaffe, of course) on the great COIN counterattack that is the Pentagon’s AirSea Battle.
As scenario work goes, what the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis has done in its war-games …
The Milwaukee suburb is still trying to comprehend the horrific incident. In the meantime, its disparate religious communities are finding common ground
The gunman, after being found fit to stand trial, will be imprisoned with no possibility of parole for the fatal shooting of six people including a federal judge and injuring of 13 others including a U.S. Representative.
BattlelandTroops
Hey, Battleland didn’t write that headline – it’s atop an article written by Rajiv Srinivasan over at Time Ideas:
If there’s one thing I hope America remembers about our military, it’s that we are indeed a cross-section of the country. If bigotry and insensitivity exists in our ranks, it’s because it originated in our society
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BattlelandAir Force
The Air Force wants to toss a Halloween party for some 200 folks in Kuwait – to “help bring a bit of Americana and a fun event to our men and women stationed far from home” — and is looking for someone to foot the bill. Don’t fret if you can’t find a Saddam Hussein mask – there’s bound to be fake Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
“Sequestration is this crazy-named, nutty process that was put in place in order to force Congress to do the right thing. They put a gun to their head in order to do the right thing. And then when they fail to do the right thing, they're ready to pull the trigger.”
BattlelandMilitary Personnel
Back in January, Battleland reported on 157 Air Force majors the service was booting out after 15 years in uniform. There had been a policy of letting such airmen make their 20 years to be eligible for a pension, but budget cutting had made that impossible in their case, the Air Force said.
Such bad-tasting medicine is increasingly …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
“We are the strongest military force in the world -- probably in the history of the world.”
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
BattlelandNavy
As the Pentagon never tires of telling us, the fulcrum of the world is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Which explains the U.S. military’s pivot from one to the other. The latest evidence?
India has announced plans …
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
Hard to believe the first, and next-to-last, combat use of the atomic bomb happened 67 years ago today.
Battleland has always been fascinated and appalled, for all the predictable reasons, concerning its use.
