An Army CH-47F Chinook crew chief surveys Afghanistan’s corduroy mountains for enemy activity.
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Besse Cooper, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at Age 116
The 116-year-old woman believed to be the oldest person in the world passed away yesterday afternoon.
Army v. Navy, Gangnam Style
OK, West Point cadets – let’s admit it – the Annapolis middies have been wiping the gridiron with you in the annual Army-Navy football game every year since 2002. That’s right – the U.S. Naval Academy’s Midshipmen …
2013 Grammy Nominations: Who Surprised and Who Got Snubbed?
If you missed the Grammy nomination concert last night, the most important thing that you need to know is that within the first few minutes of the show Taylor Swift was beatboxing.
Business As Usual Inside Obama’s Pentagon
Winslow Wheeler’s three-part series on the Navy that wrapped up on Battleland Wednesday shows that the sea service is up to its old tricks.
To wit, it is impregnating President Obama’s five-year defense program by …
Admiral Mullen Possible Target of Foreign Cyber Intrusion
Retired admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently surrendered personal computers to the FBI in the course of an ongoing investigation into international cyber activity, sources familiar with the probe tell Time. Mullen is not the target of an inquiry, the sources said, and is assisting the
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Marines Return Fire
Doug Macgregor’s piece Monday taking the Marine Corps to task – and the Army, from which he retired as an outspoken colonel – is under attack over at the Marine Corps Gazette, the official jarhead journal. He argued that …
Obama Won’t Budge on Top Tax Rates
Barack Obama dug in Tuesday on his demand that any bargain to avert the so-called fiscal cliff include an agreement to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, warning that a deal would not be reached before the Jan. 1 deadline …
The Lariam Debate…Continues
The use of the drug mefloquine – also known by its trade name, Lariam – has been controversial for years. Developed by the U.S. Army in the 1970s, it was the standard medication to fight malaria provided to U.S. troops headed …
Are Soldier and Gridiron Suicides Linked?
There has been a spate of football suicides lately, tracing the increase in self-killings now occurring in the U.S. military.
Is there a link?
To be sure, both war with its IEDs and football with its tackles can bruise a …
2012 Will Go Down as Most Expensive Year Ever for Gas
Naturally, drivers are happy that gas prices have rapidly retreated from all-time highs.
Is the Fleet Steaming Forward…Or Backward?
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The prevailing wisdom holds that America’s smaller fleet is more capable than the U.S. Navy of yore because of higher capability per individual ship. It is a dangerous assumption.
To its credit, in …
The Air Force – On the Ground — in Afghanistan
Air Force Major Gary Alexander has been to Afghanistan four times working with some of the most talented and brave folks to wear Air Force blue as a special tactics officer.
In this October interview with the Combat Studies …