BattlelandSnafus
Military airplane accidents are always scary. Initial reports often read like this:
Colonel Clay Garrison of the 144th Fighter Wing says Thursday afternoon [Dec. 27] at 3:35 while on a routine mission the pilot encountered …
BattlelandVeterans
The government has lots of hoops procurement officers have to jump through if they want to spend taxpayers’ money without competition.
Take this J&A – that would be Justification and Approval – a form that needs to be …
BattlelandMilitary History
Buchenwald, the infamous World War II concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany, was liberated by General George Patton’s 3rd Army 68 years ago this week.
Our colleagues at Life have collected some of the timeless images …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
If you had to sit through, or sift through, the Pentagon budget briefings Wednesday, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they might never end.
As a public service, Battleland’s crack team of data analysts has been poring …
BattlelandKorea
The news flashed around the world late Thursday afternoon, East Coast time, after Representative Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, read a mistakenly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) excerpt aloud at a …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Napalm is one of those American inventions that you wish weren’t, sort of like Agent Orange, killer drones, or nuclear weapons. Sure, their invention might have had to happen eventually, but why should the U.S. have to shoulder …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The Pentagon unveiled its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1, and elected to seek $52 billion – about 10% — more than it is going to be allowed to spend under current law.
The decision to seek the …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The commander-in-chief is the top guy in the U.S. military. The Pentagon is at his beck and call, and salutes smartly when summoned to do his (for now) bidding.
That’s why the Pentagon’s re-do on the President’s personal …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Wednesday is the day the Pentagon rolls out its budget proposal for the coming 2014 fiscal year, which will begin Oct. 1.
At least the start of the new fiscal year is one date you can count on.
The Obama Administration is …
BattlelandMilitary Training
Enticing young Americans to sign up for the all-volunteer military is one of the toughest jobs in uniform.
Just ask any recruiter – or his or her family.
BattlelandNavy
From an armed services committee hearing Tuesday:
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM R-S.C.: If you looked out over a 10-year window and sequestration was fully implemented, we would have 232 ships left in the Navy a decade from now. Is …
BattlelandNavy
It’s tough to tell from this contract solicitation posted by the Navy on Wednesday. But it’s from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, which last time we checked is home to a lot of U.S. …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
The U.S. government post-9/11 has taken to hiding military missions – not only from the U.S. public (“War in Pakistan? What war in Pakistan?) but also from those it seeks to kill, in order to prevent another such attack. …
