Is President Obama concerned by the runaway spending that has taken place under his watch? Sometimes he pays lip service to the notion. For example, here’s the President in the 2010 National Security Strategy of the United …
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The Great Pit Bull Makeover
A look at the campaign to redeem the reputation of a feared breed
No (Safe) Room at the Inn
The Hunt for K-129
Chilling Cold War stories are always better experienced on your computer screen than aboard a dank, cramped and doomed Soviet Golf-class submarine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The missile-laden K-129 sub sank Mar. 8, 1968, …
A Shuttle Veteran Celebrates Her Spacecraft
Marsha Ivins, who bet her life on the shuttle Atlantis, pays the retired ship a visit
Dracula’s Missile Defense 2.0
“If the cuts continue, the department will have to make sharp cuts with far-reaching consequences, including limiting combat power, reducing readiness and undermining the national security interests of the United States.”
— Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, warning of the impact of continuing the 10% annual reductions in Pentagon spending mandated by sequestration without a budget deal between the Congress and the White House.
Landing The Big One…
Well it happened – twice, to be precise.
The Navy’s unmanned X-47B jet-powered drone made repeated, safe landings aboard the carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia Wednesday (irony alert: George H.W. Bush …
“We are not much better off today than we were 10 years ago with regard to planning, executing, overseeing stabilization and reconstruction operations.”
— Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, testifying before a House panel Tuesday.
Contracting for Civilian Warplanes
Thumbing through Pentagon contracting documents can be mind-numbingly boring, although there’s far less chance of paper cuts these days since most documentation moved online. But the boilerplate requirements, specifications and …
A TBI Yardstick
Waging and preventing war are the foundations of national security. Innovative companies across the country are working on products for tomorrow’s fight. Here is Battleland’s continuing look at what looms on technology’s …
Uncommanded Influence
You know it’s not a good letter in Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s inbox when the writer addresses him as “Charles.”
The latest such missive, written two days ago by John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for …
Lunch!
Supplies airdropped from a C-17 float to U.S. troops stationed near Ghorak, Kandahar province, June 27.