By choosing Afghanistan and Syria as his targets, one artist is upending a tired tradition
Media coverage
Glenn Greenwald And eBay Founder Partnering On New Media Venture
Pierre Omidyar will fund the project
A New Age for the Washington Post
Iconic paper’s sale to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cements the end of our monopoly-media era
Saturation Coverage: With the Cruise Story, Is CNN Charting a New Course?
The network was on the Carnival Triumph story like flies on, um, the Carnival Triumph.
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 …
The Time Has Come for an English Language Latino Network
Marketers, media and politicians take note: demographics indicate that more than half of Hispanics born in the U.S. are now English dominant—and the statistic is growing
“I Shot 29 Bullets and 212 Images”
Battleland has been impressed by the photographic chops of Army Sergeant Mike MacLeod since his images began showing up in the Pentagon’s daily photo file several months ago. We’ve posted many of them on this site. It’s
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Drones Flying In Really Close Formation
It has always been amazing to hang out at the rear of an Air Force refueling tanker as the boom extends to provide fuel to thirsty jet fighters below. Flying at hundreds of knots in close formation is a delicate, and dangerous, …
Marine Corps: “Battleland” Cutoff a Snafu
The Marine Corps is now explaining why its computers have been denied access recently to this blog. A spokesman says it was done automatically, and not deliberately. By mid-morning, access to Battleland from corps computers had …
Marines Say “No” To Battleland…
Marine readers of Battleland have let us know that as of last week the corps is denying them access to this site from their work computers:
I enjoy your blog and read it at work on my NMCI (Navy Marine Corps Intranet) computer. Then a couple of days after your article “What’s wrong with The Marines?“, the below message came up when
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The Man Who Believed Himself
TOKYO – Wars can attract some odd, fringe characters, but I never met anyone stranger or more out on the fringe than Jonathan Keith Idema, who died recently in Mexico of complications from AIDS.
A career con artist and military wannabe, Idema showed up early during the war in Afghanistan. He posed variously as a government …
Tick, Tick, Tick: Another Absurd Headline
I wrote recently about the press reporting on veteran-committed crimes as a trend of veteran/psychopaths returned from the war. CNN and the Christian Science Monitor were guilty last week. Now it’s USA Today’s turn. According to the bonehead editor who came up with this sensationalist headline, returned veterans are ticking …
F-22 Mishap: Pilot To Blame, Not Hardware
The accident investigation into the F-22 that crashed last November is out, and is being read closely by Air Force pilots like myself. According to an article published last week in Air Force Times, the crash has been officially …