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This is a month for painful anniversaries. It is 10 years since the start of the benighted war in Iraq. It is also one year since March 11, 2012, the day Staff Sergeant Robert Bales allegedly massacred 16 civilians in the Panjwai …

Myth #1 – “It’s about women in combat.”

No, it’s not. Women are already in combat, and are serving well and professionally. The issue should be more clearly entitled, “Women in the infantry.” And this is a …

Army Major Phil Nicklas spent much of 2008-2009, on the second of his three combat deployments, with a U.S. Military Transition Team along the Iraqi-Syrian border.

In this November 2012 interview, here, with the Combat Studies …

As a public service, Battleland is riffing through Pentagon contract solicitations to see if we can find spending that might have been curtailed during the budget cuts now crunching the Defense Department.

You know, so that …

Check out this video, allegedly being broadcast across North Korea about life in the United States.

All 315 million Americans are apparently homeless in North Korea’s United States. They spend all their time melting snow for …

Replace the Pentagon brass? Don’t even zinc of it!

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest statement. Take the latest solicitation, here, seeking to strike up to 38,000 brass coins – so-called “command …

The much-heralded doctrine of counter-insurgency (COIN) has been a profitable and career-enhancing bromide.

Congress can’t stop asking questions about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that led to the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

“We’re still in the stage of …