— Army Lieut. General William Phillips, military deputy to the Army’s top weapons-buyer, at a recent congressional hearing.
With apologies to the field artillery — who think of themselves as the kings of battle — that crown probably best sits atop the heads of those few commanders from long ago who could survey the entire battlefield, make a quick …
— Air Force General Mark Welsh, the chief of staff, speaking Tuesday about the workload being handled by the service’s lawyers helping Air Force victims of sexual assault.
Second-guessing took stage center Wednesday at the Benghazi congressional hearing. As you may have heard, State Department officials criticized the Pentagon for failing to do enough when the U.S. consulate in that Libya city came …
An estimated 26,000 people in the U.S. military were victims of sexual assaults in 2012, a substantial increase from an estimated 19,000 in 2010, according to an analysis of a Department of Defense (DoD) survey (sexual assaults
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A pair of Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment readies for a night fight in Afghanistan April 22.
A U.S. soldier faces possible disciplinary action for allegedly throwing stones at a picture of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an eastern Afghanistan province several days ago.
The provincial government investigated reports …
— Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday. The panel is probing what happened in Benghazi last September 11 that led to the death of four Americans, including Hicks' immediate superior, Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Steve Vogel takes on a critical month-and-a-half in U.S. history that he argues saved the United States. In Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks that Saved the Nation, out this week, the Washington Post military reporter dives …
— Retired Army lieutenant general James Dubik, now a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, at a Center for Strategic and International Studies confab May 1 on the future of ground warfare.
Landing a warplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier – especially one underway at night in rough seas – isn’t something for the fainthearted to try.
But imagine doing it without a heart of any kind inside the …
Marine HMX-1’s first V-22 at Quantico, Va. White House aides and reporters will fly in the tilt-rotor, but not the President.
Battleland discussed the infuriating problem of sexual assaults in the ranks of the U.S. military on the PBS NewsHour Tuesday night – just as we did more than 16 years ago. Battleland may be a lot older, but the plague of …
