Here’s the winner of the Ladies’ Home Journal’s first-ever essay contest:
Sunrise is poised on the horizon, but in this small room, darkness still holds sway. Beyond my home in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on a pine-dotted, red-dirt range, soldiers are already training with the artillery. I’m on the verge of falling back to sleep
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Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network has the first report from the villages where Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians on March 11. It includes interviews with some of the survivors, including an eight-year old girl. Kind of brings into focus the banality of evil that Hannah Arendt wrote …
“Resilience” has become the new buzzword inside the Pentagon. It’s shorthand for our Army’s too small to fight the wars we’ve been fighting. The fourth annual Warrior Resilience Conference (or, as the Pentagon calls it, Warrior Resilience Conference IV) begins Thursday.
Instead of raising an Army big enough to send …
After three days of contentious debate before the Supreme Court on Americans’ right, or not, to health care, it’s nice to see that the Pentagon’s military working dogs get it for free. And get this – there’s no individual mandate, either.
Check out the full story of Roy, an eight-year-old Belgian Malinois, who broke his …
This will come as a big surprise to all those wives and girlfriends out there: a new study finds that men in uniform – even absent combat – are harder to get along with than civilian guys.
Military men tend to be more …
There are ancillary upsides to waging war and the defense spending that fuels it. It happens in technology – think the Internet and GPS, for the two most recent significant Pentagon-sparked advances – and medicine, …
The Air Force Academy has just opened its new glider landing strip. It’s an area the size of 23 football fields carpeted in 1.3 million square feet of what the service calls “aviation turf.” The Air Force unveiled the …
The latest New York Times-CBS poll confirms what has become increasingly clear: nearly seven of 10 Americans want out of Afghanistan.
This should come as no surprise.
What comes as a surprise is the FDA-approved sugar …
This doesn’t happen very often:
1. An Iraqi made IEDs during the most violent years of the conflict.
2. One of his bombs may have killed four members of the Pennsylvania National Guard in 2005.
3. The bomb-builder, …
