BattlelandMilitary History
Retired vice admiral Eugene Wilkinson, the first commanding officer of the world’s first nuclear submarine, died last Thursday at age 94.
Amid the chilliest days of the Cold War, it’s hard to imagine the patriotic jolt …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, after a rocky confirmation hearing in January, has been getting increasingly good grades from both politicians and troops. Part of it may be his sergeantly demeanor, but part of it also is his …
BattlelandTerrorism
…shouldn’t it at least have to explain why?”
That’s the question asked by the teen-ager’s grandfather — Nasser al-Awlaki, father of U.S. drone-killed terror-preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, and grandfather of Abdulrahman …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The military sometimes has a way with words that brings a smile to even the most skeptical taxpayer.
Check out this language from a Wednesday contract announcement by U.S. Special Operations command. It’s a $13 million deal …
BattlelandSexual Assault in the Ranks
The battle to remove the military’s chain of command from investigating sexual assaults has intensified as a pair of Tea Party senators has allied with 33 of their more liberal colleagues in the effort.
Sens. Ted Cruz, …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Canadian newspaperman, financier and author Conrad Black wrote most of his new book, Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies that Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership, inside a Florida prison cell, where …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20% cut in the ranks of the Pentagon’s top military officers and senior civilians.
Beginning in 2015, and completed by 2019.
Well, as we used to say: speed …
BattlelandCongress
Battleland has long been interested in how it was that an unmanned drone – the RQ-4 Global Hawk – ended up costing more money than the U-2 spy plane the Pentagon wanted it to replace for some missions.
After all, Gary …
BattlelandAfghanistan
From Tuesday’s list of Pentagon contract announcements:
Jorge Scientific Corp., Arlington, Va., was awarded an $11,810,908 modification (P00006) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, option-filled, multi-year contract …
BattlelandWar Story
Funny how different things can look as a war winds down.
In this February interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Major Amanda Warren, an Army logistician, talks of her 2011 deployment to …
BattlelandVeterans
Over the past five years, the cost of reimbursing eligible veterans for travel expenses associated with getting medical care at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities has more than doubled, to nearly $1 billion annually, the …
BattlelandMarines
Sure the Marines think they’re special…guess that explains that little extra — © — affixed to their uniforms:
Several recent news articles have highlighted the huge amounts of money and effort expended because of service
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BattlelandSexual Assault in the Ranks
The Marines have just issued a video featuring leathernecks sentenced to prison for sexual-assault convictions (spelled their correctly two out of three times, too, in this accompanying screen grab…).
It’s the latest in a …
