BattlelandPeople
Point of personal privilege. It has come to Battleland’s attention that David Fulghum, who has been churning out finely-machined pieces on defense aerospace at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine for nearly a quarter-century, is hanging up his G-suit next week. Fulghum is heading back to the west Texas town of San Angelo, where …
BattlelandProcurement
People are forever complaining about the so-called “revolving door,” which has government officials leaving public employment to work for companies they dealt with while in government.
There may not be those kinds of …
BattlelandDrones
BattlelandPentagon
Battleland appreciates the simplicity of pie charts. Probably comes from always getting the smallest slice of pizza as a kid.
Here’s a nifty new one from the Pentagon inspector general’s semi-annual report. It details …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
It’s hardly a coincidence that this tale surfaces just before Christmas. It’s about a new book set in the European skies in 1943. Military historian Adam Makos, editor of Valor magazine, has written A Higher Call: An …
BattlelandMilitary
The amount of discussion you get on various military topics depends on how many folks are “read into” – aware of, and knowledgeable (usually) about – any given program or subject.
That’s why you hear so little debate …
BattlelandWar Story
Air Force Major Ethan McKenna is one of those war-fighters in the nation’s post-9/11 wars who spends his time way above the battlefield. That’s because he’s monitoring things five miles down from inside the back of an AWACS …
BattlelandNavy
Out of the mouths of junior officers:
Lieutenant James Drennan writes in the latest issue of Proceedings, the naval service’s professional journal, that too many of the senior officers he is supposed to look up to are …
BattlelandMilitary Medicine
Robert Gates famously complained that health-care costs “are eating the Defense Department alive” when he served as defense secretary.
And that was more than two years before Monday’s Pentagon announcement of a contract to …
BattlelandMilitary History
John Noonan is a one-time journalist who now toils in anonymity on Capitol Hill for Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, the California Republican who chairs the armed services committee.
But every once in awhile, he betrays his …
BattlelandDrones
Sheesh. It was only a month ago that the drone drivers at Battlespace Flight Services, a short walk from the Pentagon, landed a $950 million contract to keep Pentagon drones flying “at tasked locations worldwide” though March …
BattlelandAfghanistan
It’s tough getting up the week before Christmas to hear of those 10 young Afghan girls killed by a landmine Monday as they gathered firewood in Nangahar province in the eastern part of the country.
One of them reportedly …
BattlelandMilitary Families
