BattlelandMilitary Spending
Three contract inquiries Wednesday make you wonder just how eager the U.S. government is to save money:
— The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, is seeking a gardening contractor who “shall, on Monday through Saturday …
BattlelandKorea
Let’s face it: we like looking at photographs of the North Korean military because, well…they make the U.S. military look really good.
So here is a batch of photos put together by Time’s ace photo staff for your …
BattlelandChuck Hagel
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel – following a path blazed by his deputy, Ash Carter – will kick back up to 14 days’ pay to the U.S. Treasury to replicate the pecuniary pain sequestration will inflict on fellow Pentagon …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Last week, Battleland bemoaned the increasing difficulty finding cost-per-flight-hour data for U.S. military aircraft.
In a flash, longtime defense watcher – from a perch on Capitol Hill, as well as a stint at the Government …
BattlelandDrones
A new Pentagon study contrasting the mental-health concerns of pilots who actually climb into the cockpit – as opposed to military drone drivers who sit at desks – shows that land-based pilots suffer 60% more mental-health …
BattlelandMilitary
Max Boot, the hawkish hardliner (is that redundant?) and author of the recently-published Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, says the nation got the short end of the stick …
BattlelandKorea
This photograph shows North Korea soldiers firing anti-ship rockets off the Korean coast several days ago. It’s one of several the state-run Korean Central News Agency has issued over the past week. You can’t help but think it …
BattlelandPentagon
The Washington Post‘s opinion section thought enough of recent remarks made by the Navy’s top spokesman to make them the lead item on its front page Easter morning.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the chief of naval information, …
BattlelandKorea
The mutual bluster and braggadocio persisted over the weekend on the Korean Peninsula, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continued to drive his state down an atomic dead end. He brayed anew at the state of war between his …
BattlelandKorea
Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korean rocket forces to be ready to strike the U.S. and South Korea as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel denounced the Hermit Kingdom’s “provocative actions and belligerent tone.”
Kim’s orders …
BattlelandMilitary Training
It was only two weeks ago we learned of the Army’s plans to buy 130 used cars to teach soldiers how to drive in danger zones with bigshots – like generals – in the backseat.
Now it turns out the Marines Corps Special …
BattlelandWeapons
A pair of high school kids has turned concern over the noise generated by F-35s flying out of Florida’s Elgin Air Force Base into a science-fair project.
Or, as the Northwest Florida Daily News puts it:
Since September,
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BattlelandMilitary Spending
We had an item the other day about the cost of keeping the Air Force’s RQ-4 Global Hawk drone fleet flying. We updated it Wednesday with answers from the Air Force that warrant further examination here.
The contract simply …
