The Los Angeles Times’ story last weekend on “our medicated military” reactivated the long-standing debate about Soldiers and other Service members being prescribed anti-depressants and other psychiatric medications while on …
“Fix It Now”
The perpetual problem of sexual assault in the ranks sometimes seems akin to white noise – a force of nature that tends to blend into the background because, you believe, it has always been there (this report from the Government Accountability Office released Tuesday only reinforces that feeling). Then you stumble across a letter …
“Testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing”
Speaking of nuclear weapons: if the experts can’t agree, what help is there for the rest of us?
The former director of Sandia National Laboratories, one of the nation’s nuclear-weapon development centers, said the …
1,737
More For Show Than Protection
That was headline Tuesday in the Japan Times on the prospect that the Japanese military will be able to do anything to protect Japanese citizens if the North Korean rocket launch slated for later this week goes astray. The article notes it was comments from a Pentagon official that debris could fall on Japan or elsewhere in the …
Get Women in the Picture!
I received an email from a doctoral student at the University of West Florida who is writing her dissertation on women military careerists born between 1940 and 1955. As a result, she has spent a good amount of time talking to retired service women, as well as visiting the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. She …
Rules of Engagement: In Fallujah…and in Florida
With George Zimmerman’s lawyers bailing on him Tuesday, the killer of Florida teen-ager Trayvon Martin seems to be a story that won’t go away any time soon. It also has triggered an interesting commentary from Jon Soltz, …
Smoke Signals
The Drones Are Coming! Oops – They’re Already Overhead…
Military Services’ `Wish Lists’ Get the Heave Ho
For years, the military services had an unnerving tendency to declare to their funders on Capitol Hill just what their old mean defense secretary wouldn’t let them have. It has always struck Battleland as a little too close to kids crying over what Santa failed to bring them. We noted three years ago that then-defense secretary Robert …
The Candy Man…
Well, April 1st Was Last Week
[vodpod id=Video.16343044&w=425&h=350&fv=]
Navy Looking Skyward to Tame Pirates
Pirates are funny when they’re portrayed by a rum-soaked Johnny Depp. In real life, however, they pose a serious problem, with around 160 ships and 4,000 sailors affected by pirates in the last decade. Last year, three American tourists were killed by Somali pirates after an unsuccessful raid by Navy SEALS.
…