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Concurrency: From the Inside
There’s a lot of criticism these days of a practice called concurrency, an engineering approach the DoD implemented a reform or two ago. Concurrency was supposed to help move things to the field faster. Unfortunately, like many …
A Marine Two-Star: Why Afghanistan Is Like Vietnam
After years of U.S. officials insisting Afghanistan is not turning into another Vietnam, a two-star U.S. Marine general — just back from a year-long combat tour there — says Afghanistan could well end up resembling the …
“Increasingly Expensive and Incapable…”
Former Army intel officer Chris Davis, who served with a light-infantry unit in Afghanistan, is pondering the price, and cost (there is a difference) – of the U.S. military over at Small Wars Journal:
As the defense budget continues to grow, the military is less able to deliver desirable political outcomes in America’s conflicts.
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“…For Changes to the Configuration…”
These are the first two contracts in the Pentagon’s Tuesday list (click on them to enlarge). They’re for changes to be made to the F-35 fighter’s design. Even though the planes already are coming off Lockheed’s Fort Worth assembly line (the machinists’ strike launched Sunday nonwithstanding), changes in the $400 billion program’s …
“Some of the Afghans now, they’re very snooty, they don't want to drink anything that’s not bottled. We’re trying to draw them back: `Hey, remember when you used to drink it right out of the well?’”
The North Korean Rat Pack
Over the past 24 hours, the North Korean government has fired a fusillade of news dispatches south toward the enemy, here, here, here, here, and here. The language is startling, even by the routine over-the-top standards of the Hermit Kingdom:
The indignation of the army and people of the DPRK at the group of rat-like [South Korean
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Dust Busters
Are South Koreans Really Bigger Than North Koreans?
War Dog
Los Angeles Times’ Atrocity Photos: Truth Teller, or Newspaper Seller?
I just read about another reprehensible incident that has come to light after two years. Photos of soldiers from the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., posing with body parts of dead suicide bombers in Afghanistan, were recently published by the Los Angeles Times. The troops were stationed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Americans …
“Told Ya So…”
Vets have been saying for years that mental-health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs has been inadequate. Lawmakers have echoed that refrain. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled vets’ access to mental-health care …