Six months after prominent Internet activist Aaron Swartz killed himself in his Brooklyn apartment, his father endorsed new legislation designed to reform the federal law that U.S. prosecutors used to threaten his son with 35 …
BattlelandWar Story
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Army Captain Gates Brown saw it all during his 2006-2007 deployment to Iraq, most spent just north of Baghdad. He spoke of the good (trying to make a better life for young Iraqis), the bad (the apartness from Iraqis inherent in
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What Milk Shakes Teach Us About Food Addiction
Have you ever craved a piece of chocolate? Or felt the lure of a hot slice of pizza? And been convinced that the force responsible wasn’t your stomach hoping to quell hunger but your brain, desperately seeking to satisfy …
How Vets and Military Technology Are Helping at Home
MOORE, Okla. — William Gauntner quickly walks around a home hit by one of the tornados that recently devastated central Oklahoma. A Navy-vet-turned-firefighter with training in structural assessment, Gauntner records the …
BattlelandAsia-Pacific
Japan Learns Anew How to Fight From the Sea
TOKYO – It’s unlikely that Japan’s land, sea and air forces will sweep all before them anytime soon – and perhaps that’s best. But if they are required to defend or re-take any of Japan’s thousands of remote islands …
Weiner Leads in Polls While His Sext Recipients Get Harassed. Double Standard, Anyone?
Women involved in sex scandals live in ignominy, while the men are elevated to higher heights
BattlelandAir Force
From the Same Folks Manning Two Legs of the Nuclear Triad
Official Air Force caption accompanying official Air Force photograph:
“6/24/2013 — An Airman uses a forklift to move a pallet during training June 21, 2013, on RAF Mildenhall, England. To comply with a U.S. Air Forces in …
NASA’s Proposed Asteroid Capture Mission Animation
The best two things you can say about this video NASA just posted of its proposed asteroid capture mission is that it’s insanely cool to watch and it will cost you only 4 minutes and 42 seconds of your life
Cap’n Crunch — And Nine Other Fake Military Titles
Yet another military scandal erupted earlier this month when Foodbeast blogger Charisma Madarang questioned the military service of Cap’n Crunch. While the cereal icon (né Horatio Magellan Crunch) has captained the S.S. Guppy …
TIME Poll: What Makes Americans Happy?
In a new poll, we look at what Americans do to pursue fulfillment and happiness and what makes them unhappy—from gathering likes on social media to getting a divorce. Their answers might surprise you.
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Top Doc
Military medicine has received a lot of well-deserved attention in the wars launched since 9/11. More wounded troops than ever are surviving the battlefield, and there are many advances both there and back home that have made …
“From an architecture standpoint, certainly we could support that policy decision. But I guess I'll defer to the policymakers on whether that is a position that the United States, this Administration, the national leadership would choose to take. Within the system itself, on the platform, there's absolutely no reason we couldn't support that type of a policy decision.”
— Vice Admiral Terry Benedict, director of Navy Strategic System Programs, speaking Wednesday on whether the submarine fleet’s nuclear missiles can be taken off their current hair-trigger alert, as advocated in this report. Candidate Barack Obama said he would work with the Russians to de-alert nuclear weapons, but his 2010 Nuclear Posture Review opted to keep the nation’s nuclear weapons primed for attack.
Helicopter Gunship
A CH-47 Chinook flies an M777 howitzer from FOB Hadrian to Kandahar airfield June 18.