Mark Thompson

About 9:30 a.m. Pyongyang time Thursday, the Korean Central Broadcasting Station transmitted the following message:

We inform all soldiers and residents! This is an air raid warning. This is an air raid warning. This is an air

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We’re not going to cite some fuzzy Pentagon proposal or procurement for our final Sequestion. Even though we said we’d keep it up until sequestration was history, we decided after a week that we value our mental health too …

American women, no longer mere accoutrements in the U.S. military machine, are increasingly becoming vital cogs.

A pair of unrelated, but connected, incidents drove that point home to Battleland in recent days.

First of …

If the Air Force wanted to keep its folks slim and trim, perhaps it shouldn’t base thousands of them at a place called Grand Forks.

The service announced Wednesday that it has relieved Colonel Tim Bush, commander of the …

One thing the war in Afghanistan has taught the Pentagon: even the lightest of U.S. forces — that would be the Marine Corps – relies too much on fuel to keep its generators humming to keep its lights, air conditioners and …

The U.S. embassy in Seoul tweeted this photograph of a B-52 bomber and all its firepower several hours ago.

The dispatch came after North Korea warned of “strong military counter-action” if the U.S. again flies the bombers …

Escalade: v., from the Italian, the act of scaling especially the walls of a fortification.

Escalade: n., from Cadillac, to describe the standard-issue chariot for four-star U.S. military commanders, despite the fiscal vise …

Two weeks ago, we posted a chart from a Government Accountability Office report that showed U.S. levels of defense spending remain at historic highs, with or without sequestration.

Now the Congressional Budget Office has …

Battleland knows it is serious business, but given the tough financial situation the U.S. military now finds itself in, couldn’t the Navy have waited for better times before announcing Monday that it is seeking to hire “Live …

When the Iraq war began 10 years ago Tuesday, Colonel Ted Spain was in the thick of it from the start. He ended up commanding a U.S. Army police brigade in Baghdad for the first year of the war. He presents a down-in-the-weeds …

The Pentagon says it is starved for money, and national security is being imperiled by the (largely) 10% across-the-board budget cut imposed under sequestration nearly three weeks ago.

Given the fiscal crisis, why is the Army …

Monday begins a three-post series by former Marine – yes, we know there is no such thing – William Treseder on American blood and treasure.

He’s one of those strange hybrids: a Marine sergeant who ended up as one of a …