BattlelandAfghanistan
It was just over a year ago that a senior U.S. military officer in Afghanistan was raving about the solar-powered streetlights popping up in Kabul:
There is no reliable electric grid here in this city of 5 million people, and so
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“My mind in the past couple of years has folded on itself. I just went to the Dr. and they said I just tested positive for Dementia.”
BattlelandSnafus
In sociology, the “broken-windows theory” holds that if a neighborhood or city doesn’t fix its broken windows and graffiti, the environment will continue to descend into crime, chaos and violence.
In Brazil, apparently, it means something quite different. Check out this pair of Brazilian air force Mirage 2000 fighters flying too …
BattlelandPacific
TOKYO – In a gesture of friendship and goodwill toward an obscure former ally, warships from New Zealand have been granted special, private berthing privileges for a major naval exercise now underway in Hawaii. And wouldn’t …
“Yesterday morning we had a large video conference with Afghanistan to discusses our ongoing efforts to develop a natural gas and power project in the north of Afghanistan, which we almost had to cancel because of lack of power in Washington, D.C.”
BattlelandMarines
Women are slowly creeping into combat positions across the U.S. military. Bars on their service in fighter jets fell 20 years ago, and they’re now heading out to sea, under the sea, aboard submarines. The Army and Marines are both grappling with opening up even more opportunities in the classic front-line combat roles: infantry, …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The Schriever Sentinel reports that an (unfortunately unidentified) airman at Colorado’s Buckley Air Force Base wondered earlier this year how come the reverse sides of signs on post needed to be painted brown. After all, he reasoned, the base could save money if they were left in their original galvanized state.
Bingo! His …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
What does the Pentagon get for that kind of money these days? Well, according to a Navy contract announced Tuesday, it gets five years of
…leadership teams, providing expertise in change management, barrier identification and
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BattlelandArmy
There can be no winners when a U.S. soldier comes home in a transfer case, draped with the U.S. flag. But one father refused to accept the official story of his son’s death in Iraq, and fought the U.S. Army to force it to acknowledge that perhaps his son didn’t need to die.
Battleland knows how tough it can be to fight the U.S. …
“I think we ought to have a draft. I think if a nation goes to war, it shouldn't be solely be represented by a professional force, because it gets to be unrepresentative of the population.”
BattlelandAfghanistan
The good news is Pakistan has finally re-opened its overland supply routes to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The bad news is that it took eight months – and $2.1 billion – to get Islamabad to agree. Plus, a U.S. apology. The two …
