Military Training
How U.S. Commanders Deal With Their Military Allies
We’re all familiar with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance.
Well, over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has come up with a similar construct detailing the six stages U.S. military commanders go through in their dealings with their local counterparts in …
Hey Army: Why You So Far Behind the Marines When It Comes to Women?
The recent announcement by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos that he is exploring ways to better integrate female Marines into combat units came hot on the heels of a policy shift that will allow women to attend the Marine …
Semper Female? The Commandant on Women in Combat
Of Enemy Dead and Cameras
The guys over at the Long War Journal have an interesting take on the latest batch of photos showing U.S. troops posing with dead insurgents in Afghanistan:
…if you’re an editor who is going to vault these pictures to the top of the news cycle, don’t dwell overlong on the failings of a few US soldiers – gratuitously show it all, the
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To the Shores of Morocco…
The Resiliency Trade
The Pentagon is institutionalizing resiliency, referring to a soldier’s ability to shake off the horrors of war and go back and experience them again (it has become such a buzzword that the Army has changed the name of its once-heralded Battlemind program to Resilience Training). Over at the Time Ideas blog, learning scholar Annie …
Smoke Signals
F-18 Accident Aftermath: Vacancies
Collateral Damage: F-18 Crash Could Hurt Base’s Future
The crash of a Navy F-18D Hornet into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia, could seal the fate of the Oceana Naval Air Station there. The Navy has been trying for more than a decade to build a practice jet airfield in North Carolina or Virginia to practice simulated carrier landings with Oceana-based aircraft. But local …
“Hey Mr. President…
…you sure you want Air Force One pilot training going to the lowest bidder?” (h/t astronaut Alan Shepard)
Desert Aircraft Carrier
Is The Army Responsible for the Afghan Massacre?
Colleague Jim Frederick is asking some tough questions over at the Time Ideas blog:
American and Afghan authorities are scrambling to ensure this tragedy does not derail the planned departure of NATO forces in 2014, and it is
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