The flat-free business model has worked for Netflix, so why not for air travel too?
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A Nice Fit for Japan?
U.S. and Japanese personnel watch as a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey – wings, rotors and engines folded — is brought below decks on the helicopter carrier JS Hyuga.
It was the first time that a V-22 has landed on a Japanese …
Revenge or Revival, Perry Raids Blue State Jobs With New Vigor
The long-reigning governor and failed presidential candidate is in the northeast this week to woo businesses—and spread the gospel of the “Texas Miracle”
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Syrian No-Fly Zone: No-Brainer or No Sense?
Lawmakers on Sunday pressed for President Obama to put a “no-fly zone” in place over Syria, even as U.S. military officers have expressed doubts over its effectiveness.
“We need to create a no-fly zone,” Senator Lindsey …
Potential Blind Spots in Clearance Process that Gave Snowden Top-Secret Access
More than a million Americans have security clearances to access classified information. Here’s what the government does–and doesn’t–do when deciding who’s trustworthy
“I want to be able to deal with an unexpected problem in a [U.S. nuclear] warhead. And the traditional way we've done is if we got 400 ICBMs and two [kinds of] warheads, we keep at least 400 of each, so that if one of those warheads fails, we can still over time field the other one.”
— Linton Brooks, former director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, speaking June 13. This policy, he acknowledged, "runs contrary to the broad trend under all of the last four Administrations to reduce the total stockpile."
BattlelandSexual Assault in the Ranks
Happy Father’s Day, Lieutenant Colonel
You may recall several months ago the news that an F-16 pilot’s court-martial conviction on charges of sexual assault in Italy were tossed out by his commander, an Air Force three-star general. The unilateral reversal – a rarely-used, but jealously-guarded, prerogative of command that appears (largely due to this case) in a fatal …
BattlelandMilitary Families
“A Town Without Dads”
Flag Day, on the cusp of Father’s Day weekend, makes this the perfect day to read Stephen Rodrick’s paean to his Navy EA-6B-pilot-father, over on Slate.
As someone who grew up in a non-military family close to Quonset …
Black Hawk Up
I was one of two MH-60L Black Hawk pilots, call sign Super Six-Four, shot down over Mogadishu in October 1993.
It happened in the midst of perhaps the most infamous U.S. battle since the Vietnam War. It ended up being told in …
“I know that many of you have questions about yesterday's announcement by the White House on Syria. We do not have anything to add at this time and are continuing to point to the White House's statements.”
— Pentagon spokesman George Little's statement to reporters Friday morning.
Famous Dads Reflect on Joys of Fatherhood
In honor of Father’s Day, Aaron Sorkin, Ethan Hawke and other leading dads wax poetic about their daughters
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Brain Scans
Improvised explosive devices are the curse that keeps on giving.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that it has established the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine Brain Tissue Repository for Traumatic Brain …
Brennan Rocks the Boat With Deputy CIA Pick
Brennan names a virtual unknown as deputy director