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Costly Flight Hours

Last week, Battleland bemoaned the increasing difficulty finding cost-per-flight-hour data for U.S. military aircraft.

In a flash, longtime defense watcher – from a perch on Capitol Hill, as well as a stint at the Government …

Scoring Our Four Iraq Wars

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

— Thucydides

It’s still unclear how history will judge the U.S. …

Snipe-Hunt Training

A pair of Marine scout snipers head to a live-fire range on Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, March 23.

Shouldn’t This Photo Be in Black-and-White?

This photograph shows North Korea soldiers firing anti-ship rockets off the Korean coast several days ago. It’s one of several the state-run Korean Central News Agency has issued over the past week. You can’t help but think it …

$134 Million

— The amount the Navy plans on spending on re-enlistment bonuses this year to keep sailors with needed skills. That's up from $95 million in 2012. "We are hiring," Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, tells the independent Navy Times newspaper.

The Mystery Behind a Deadly Chemical Attack

Reports on bombings in Syria these days have become routine. But when Mohammad Sabbagh, an industrialist from Aleppo, heard about the attack near his hometown on March 19, the details stopped him cold.

Survivors and witnesses …

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