Two weeks ago, we posted a chart from a Government Accountability Office report that showed U.S. levels of defense spending remain at historic highs, with or without sequestration.
Now the Congressional Budget Office has …
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Are Today’s Vets Better Off?
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, it’s time for some perspective on the path we have traveled. We went into Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction, then to avenge September 11, then to build a foothold of …
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— The age of a Chinese woman with whom Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a civilian intelligence contractor working for U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, had allegedly been sharing national-security secrets, the U.S. government charged Monday. Bishop had shared information with the one-time U.S.-based student on war plans, nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Bishop is...59.
“I think I’ll stand up, because if I get a really tough one, I have this little tap dance that I’ve worked out over time.”
— Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies if he wanted to sit down during the Q&A portion. Check out his choreography here.
Sequestion Time, #5: Cough, Please
Battleland knows it is serious business, but given the tough financial situation the U.S. military now finds itself in, couldn’t the Navy have waited for better times before announcing Monday that it is seeking to hire “Live …
A Marine’s Anniversary Reflections
It’s the little details you tend to remember about war, snapshots of time that have a grisly habit of creeping into your thoughts and dreams years after your service:
— The deafening silence of “roll call” during a memorial …
A New Truman Doctrine
Military Mental Health’s Wins and Losses Since the Iraq Invasion
Looking back, 10 years after we pushed into Iraq, how have we done?
Let us start out by reviewing some of the improvements:
— Better screening for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), …
Obama in Israel: Running to Stay Put
President Barack Obama heads to Israel, Palestine, and Jordan for the first foreign trip of his second term…
Trying to Put Iraq Back Together
Army 4-Star Lauds “Marines’ Aversion to BS” On Women in Infantry
Superb, objective, fair-minded article by Greg Newbold.
In particular – women have been successfully serving in combat for 12 years…152 KIA…over 1000 WIA. Women in uniform have been a courageous, effective, integral part …
March Madness Will Cost Businesses $134 Million. Why Aren’t Employers Concerned?
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament will cost U.S. companies an estimated $134 million in “lost wages” this week. But do employers care? Not really.
II. War By Any Other Name
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Once upon a time — like 10 years ago today, when we invaded Iraq — Americans knew when they were fighting a war. This may be hard to imagine from the vantage point of 2013, but citizens in long-ago conflicts …