BOSTON — Shortly after the Boston bombings I posted a note here about the mental health effects of mass violence, which often go on for years and even decades.
I had the wonderful opportunity last weekend to visit Boston to …
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101st Airbark Division
Military Working Dog Staff Sergeant Alex of the 101st on a nighttime resupply mission in Kunar province, April 18.
“I'm pleased with the Joint Chiefs' decision to deploy a THAAD missile-defense battery to Guam to address the North Korean missile threat situation. It was encouraging, especially to my constituents, to have the added defense capability.”
— Delegate Madeleine Bordallo, D-Guam, at an armed services committee hearing April 25.
Connecting the Dots…
Last week a top Pentagon soothsayer peered into the future and found the Defense Department running out of money. Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the problem is deeper, and likely …
The Ultimate Cost of Poor Decisions
Watching Afghanistan and Iraq developments unfold, failing to meet our original expectations, is depressing enough.
But it’s made worse when I think how I felt when the American public grew tired of the
The Pentagon’s New Math
The Defense Department’s abacuses are falling apart as their beads are whipped up and down trying to keep up with the impact of sequestration.
It’s driving the bean-counters crazy.
But dollars apparently aren’t the …
Night Flight
An Army CH-47 supplies troops at Forward Operating Base Bostic in Nuristan province, April 18.
Sequestration: The Unintelligence Choice
We are now over a month into sequestration, the across-the-board budget cuts mandated by Congress when it and the White House failed to reach a budget agreement.
The predictions for what would happen should sequestration go …
“Uttering the words `red line' should be a red line a President should never cross in any situation that depends on subjective assessments and analyses.”
— Pentagon official.
F-35 Bookkeeping
Numbers can get complicated pretty quickly. Especially at the Pentagon. Especially when it comes to paying – or not paying — contractors.
As defense secretary, Robert Gates withheld $614 million from Lockheed Martin in 2010 …
Repeating Hi$tory
MARINA DI RAGUSA, Sicily — Almost 23 years ago, I wrote a short pamphlet, Defense Power Games.
My aim then (as it is now) was to explain why the end of the Cold War would not produce a peace dividend in the form of reduced …
“All Ears on Deck!”
Rear Adm. Bill Lescher speaks to sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge in the Gulf of Oman, Apr. 23.
