BattlelandMilitary Spending
As President Obama heads to Norfolk on Tuesday to warn of the biggest attack on the Navy’s fleet since Pearl Harbor – that would be the budget cuts mandated under the sequester, slated to start Friday – the Navy itself …
U.S. soldiers load a U.S. OH-58 helicopter onto a Russian Antonov AN-124 cargo plane at Bagram Airfield, Feb. 8.
BattlelandProcurement
A year after the fatal shooting of a Florida teenager made national headlines, a look at the major players in the ongoing case against his killer.
BattlelandPolitics
The U.S. Senate confirmed former senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday after a long, drawn-out confirmation battle.
Early Tuesday afternoon, he cleared the most critical hurdle when the Senate voted 71-27 to cut …
“The defense industry is in the fight of its life, but many of its longtime champions on Capitol Hill are retired, dead or in jail.”
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Ever since the Cold War ended, the Pentagon has been pushing to become more “flexible” and “agile,” to use two words frequently heard at Defense Department briefings and found burrowed into innumerable Pentagon …
The bickering over the provenance of the sequester belies the fact that very few people in Washington truly know how it will unfold.
If the Academy Awards can be said to register the cultural pulse of the nation, America clearly retains its uneasy fascination with the politics and psychology of war.
From the Paris Uprising and the U.S. Civil War, to the …
BattlelandProcurement
The news that the Pentagon’s fleet of 51 F-35 fighters has been grounded because of a half-inch crack in one of its engine’s turbine blade is one of those problems that can truly be called a teething issue: it’s something that …
Marine 1st Sgt. Joshua Clayton eats a live scorpion Feb. 17 as part of training during Operation Cobra Gold in Thailand.
The cannabis industry is an easy target for legislatures to saddle with heavy taxes.
