Mark Thompson

Atlantic Media, publisher of the magazine by the same name, announced Tuesday it will launch Defense One this summer, “a digital-first media platform designed to help defense leaders navigate the unprecedented transformation of …

President Obama has said he will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon. So why did the Center for a New American Security, the think tank most closely associated with staffing Obama’s Pentagon, issue a report Monday called If All …

Given the spate of recent stories of women allegedly assaulted by members of the U.S. military, it’s nice to see the Army moving out on plans to renovate “a Safe House which will be used as a shelter for victims of domestic …

The Government Accountability Office is out with a briefing entitled Defense Logistics: The Department of Defense’s Report on Strategic Seaports Addressed All Congressionally Directed Elements.

Back when Battleland was just …

For those of a certain age, David Bowie’s 1969 classic Space Oddity is a song for the ages. Now, at last, it has been performed where Bowie pretended to do it: from outer space, by International Space Station commander Chris …

Military bigwigs in Washington may spend all their time fretting about the F-35, Ford-class carriers and assorted Ground Combat Vehicles, but the grunts in the field are far more consumed with their uniforms. After all, unlike …

First of three parts

Battleland has a pair of interesting posts going up here shortly.

The first was written in 1968 – at the height of the Vietnam war — by Captain Donald Hansen, who flew more than 150 combat missions …

Last Friday, we ran this post about this letter in the Naval War College Review by a woman engaged to a Navy commanding officer. She alleged he had lied to her, and dragged halfway around the globe – to Guam, no less – by …

There’s a fascinating letter in the latest issue of the Naval War College Review from a woman who alleges she was treated abominably by an unnamed, still-serving commanding officer in the U.S. Navy. This is an official …

While some folks maintain that armies are always busy fighting the last war, Major Geraldo Pulido argues that the U.S. Army, from his vantage point, did a pretty good job of adapting to changing circumstances during his four …

Government bidders who lose a contract get the right to appeal to the Government Accountability Office, which regularly issues rulings that generally say the agency got it right and the losing bidder is basically asserting sour …

Sometimes it’s tough to tell when you’re being misled.

Take this (barely) edited exchange Tuesday between Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at a hearing into the Navy’s proposed 2014 budget before …

Even with Battleland’s huge staff, we can’t get to all the important national-security confabs that happen every day in the nation’s capital. So we’re forced to assign our staff to skim transcripts of the gallimaufry that …