Hawkish historian Max Boot is out with a book on insurgency. In Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, the emphasis is on the epic – the tome weighs in at 750 pages. It’ll be …
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Yankin’ Yankee
Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael Lennon pulls the lanyard to test-fire a D-30 howitzer at the Kabul Military Training Center, Jan. 6.
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Caring for Those Who Take Care of Our Troops
What can you say when a mental health expert — who is married to a mental health expert — can’t get the requisite counseling help he needs to survive?
Dr. Peter J.N. Linnerooth’s story is as cautionary as it is haunting – hopefully it will shed much needed light on the tragic consequences of PTSD, and the overwhelming need …
The Enemy Within
It’s a drag that the U.S. military has to dedicate so much time and effort to teaching young people skills they should have been taught at home.
Now, apparently, it’s getting even worse: we have to teach everyone else not …
One Month After, Newtown Deals with the Physical Reminders of the Massacre
As generous as the country and the world has been, the gifts are a reminder of the horrors of Dec. 14—all that and the school building itself in Sandy Hook
Hot Stuff: The F-35 Just Became 25% More Vulnerable
Darn that gravity. Without it, airplanes would be easier to design (yes, there’s be other problems, like people floating off into space, if you’re going to get technical).
But gravity is what makes designing warplanes so …
One If By Land, Two If By Sequestration: The Budget Cuts Are Coming! The Budget Cuts Are Coming!
The Pentagon’s No. 2 official has issued marching orders telling the U.S. military how to deal with its most intractable foe: looming budget cuts.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the military services in …
How Not to Rebuild a War-Torn Country
The new Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction stopped by a Washington think tank Thursday to let assorted foreign-policy types how things are going.
“Two months ago, when we picked this date out of the …
Snow Going
A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler returns home to Japan’s Misawa air base amid a snowstorm Jan. 10.
Dr. Peter J. N. Linnerooth, 1970–2013
How an Army psychologist, who won a Bronze Star in Iraq for keeping troops from killing themselves, couldn’t save his own life
Navy Goes to Great Depths to Determine Cause of Air Force Crash
The Navy’s always ready to help out the Air Force – especially when the flyboys are trying to figure out why one of their F-16s went down last summer off the northeastern coast of Japan (the pilot was ok).
Only one …
Speaking of Sole-Source Contracts…
…as we did Tuesday here on Battleland, here’s another peek into the process:
— the Army Contracting Command (that would be the buyer) and the Army’s Office of the Judge Advocate General (that would be the lawyer) just …