With General John Allen’s announcement Tuesday that he is hanging up his Marine uniform after 35 years, there’s a dwindling number of senior U.S. officials who know the logic behind President Obama’s decision to pull out …
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An Army Iwo Jima
Soldiers at Fort Bragg hook up a 105mm howitzer to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during training Feb. 8.
Chinese View Of Islands Conflict: “Make It Quick”
The Loren Ranger
Loren B. Thompson of the Lexington Institute didn’t much care for our F-35 story last week. On his Early Warning blog, he calls it a “misleading” and “sloppy” story that left out all the positive news about the $396 …
General John Allen Salutes…His Wife
Marine General John Allen – caught up and cleared in the email scandal that brought down CIA director David Petraeus – told President Obama on Tuesday he would rather retire from the U.S. military than become Supreme Allied …
Pentagon Budgetary Hat Trickery
The sky-is-falling game is now fully underway when it comes to the more than $500 billion in Pentagon budget cuts slated to begin March 1 if Congress and the White House can not agree on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction by then. …
“We're going to have to cut 70% of the money we have available to run our installations. So we're going to be able to pay for water, heat and that's about it. And air conditioning, depending on where you are.”
— General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, speaking at the Brookings Institution Feb. 15, on the the impact of the looming 10% budget cut that would be imposed by sequestration beginning March 1.
Leverage Your Clearance!
Many ads hop-scotching across the Washington, D.C., radio airwaves seek highly-trained workers possessing Top Secret security clearances for Company X’s new Pentagon project or Company Y’s new government contract.
It’s …
Is $500 Enough for Enduring the Cruise from Hell?
So you’ve survived for five days stranded at sea aboard the Carnival Triumph. Here’s $500 for your troubles.
Hide-and-Seek
A U.S. soldier hunting for bad guys in Khowst Province, Jan. 31.
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Mississippi Finally Ratifies the Amendment to Ban Slavery — 148 Years Later
And believe it or not, it’s all thanks to the movie ‘Lincoln.’
