Even with Battleland’s huge staff, we can’t get to all the important national-security confabs that happen every day in the nation’s capital. So we’re forced to assign our staff to skim transcripts of the gallimaufry that …
National
“You don't just become a nuclear-weapons designer overnight…I actually took a tour of the Twitter site about three weeks ago. I'm in the Bay Area and it is a different universe, I will say. You know, we are never going to offer our people free lunches, and we're never going to be able to offer, you know, or a massage room, which is what they had.”
— Penrose "Parney" Albright, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, explaining to Congress earlier this week some of the challenges associated with keeping his highly-skilled workers satisfied. “We still,” he added, “remain a destination for the very best and brightest in this country.”
Clothes Call: Camouflaged Spending
Joe and Jane American don’t buy warships, satellites, tanks and jet fighters. But they do purchase clothes to wear in a variety of colors and patterns.
That’s what makes Thursday’s story in the Washington Post on the …
Millennials: The Next Greatest Generation?
You might think they’re entitled, lazy and over-confident. You’d be right—but you’d also be wrong
Quiz: How Millennial Are You?
Age isn’t the only thing that makes you millennial—habits do too. Find out how truly millennial you are here
Poll: Who’s the Most Influential Millennial?
Of the 80 million Americans dubbed “millennials,” born roughly between 1980 and 2000, who will we still be talking about when the next generation comes of age? Voting for the most influential millennial poll is now closed. Click …
Income Inequality: It’s Not Just for Older People Anymore
20-somethings are on more even financial footing than the rest of the population, but that equality is slipping
Watch Joel Stein Live Like a Millennial For a Day
We asked Joel Stein, the author of this week’s cover story on millennials, to live like a young American for a single day.
I’m Not on Facebook and I Don’t Regret It—Yet
I have inexplicably made it to my 30s without poking, posting, commenting, friending or planning a single thing on Facebook. And I’m still here. I’m still standing. I am the 7%, and it has not been easy.
“We have the M855A1, essentially a brand new 5.56 ammunition that we currently use in the fight today in Afghanistan. It provides incredible increased lethality over the normal 855 round, and the amount of lethality that it provides gets it very close to a 7.62 in terms of capability. Since the early days of the Iraq war, when you used to hear [that U.S. troops would] pull the trigger and…they'd keep coming -- with this round that essentially stops that. When you hit someone with this round they essentially go down.”
— Army Lieut. General William Phillips, military deputy to the Army’s top weapons-buyer, at a recent congressional hearing.
The True Kings of Battle
With apologies to the field artillery — who think of themselves as the kings of battle — that crown probably best sits atop the heads of those few commanders from long ago who could survey the entire battlefield, make a quick …
“We now have 265 victims assigned to special victims counsels. Our special victims counsels are busy enough that we have taken them off of all other duties. They are now completely dedicated to this particular task.”
— Air Force General Mark Welsh, the chief of staff, speaking Tuesday about the workload being handled by the service’s lawyers helping Air Force victims of sexual assault.
