For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, …
First, Stop Digging
U.S. Army Cpl. B.J. Buie, foreground, an infantryman with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, digs a machine-gun position during Operation Southern Fist in the Spin …
Launch Party
This simulated war thing is catching on. For the past 20 years, the U.S. hasn’t exploded a single atomic warhead to see if the stockpile remains potent. Instead, computer simulations under the so-called Stockpile Stewardship …
Trainin’ in the Rain
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz practice deterring intruders during a force-protection exercise October 11 near San Diego.
Women 0-For-2 in Marine Combat Training
The second female Marine officer has washed out of the corps’ infantry-officer training, Marine Corps Times reports. That means both women – along with nearly 30 of 107 men – have failed to make it through the grueling …
When “No Acts of Terror” Actually Means “This Act of Terror”
When bad things happen, it’s human nature to accentuate the positive, as Johnny Mercer put it. That’s precisely what the Obama Administration did following the September 11 killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and …
Korresponts Koreedoor
We reported last month about the Defense Department taking down the sign honoring a Pentagon hallway as the “Correspondents Corridor” and replacing it with one highlighting “ASD Public Affairs.” ASD is Pentagon-speak for …
Nunn-Lugar No Longer?
Sam Nunn left the Senate in 1997. Richard Lugar lost his bid for a seventh term in May. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that their landmark 1991 legislation, the Nunn-Lugar act that created the Cooperative Threat …
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Supersonic Sunday
Personal SLEP
Your Battleland scribe is undergoing his own Service Life Extension Program…in other words, a couple of weeks off. Posting will be cut back. Time for some depot-level maintenance, as the loggies like to say.
Empire of the Sunset
The War Winds Down…
Two different, but mutually reinforcing, newspaper takes Sunday on the U.S. role in Afghanistan:
— In a lengthy editorial, the New York Times says it’s time to speed up the U.S. military’s withdrawal, well before the 2015 …