It’s July 11, or 7/11, the day each year that a certain convenience store chain celebrates as 7-Eleven Day.
BattlelandMilitary History
70 Years Ago Yesterday: The Italian Campaign Begins
The shock of seeing World War II images in color never goes away for some of us. Cousin LIFE has posted an almost-gaudy series of images by the great photographer Carl Mydans tracing the fighting up Italy’s boot, which began 70 …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Sequestration Swings – And Misses!
As the Pentagon weighs cuts in danger pay for some of its troops around the world in order to save money, it’s also considering spending up to $100,000…to irrigate a pair of Italian softball fields.
Apparently, the two ball
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Reducing the Debt Should Be the True National Security Priority
Is President Obama concerned by the runaway spending that has taken place under his watch? Sometimes he pays lip service to the notion. For example, here’s the President in the 2010 National Security Strategy of the United …
The Great Pit Bull Makeover
A look at the campaign to redeem the reputation of a feared breed
BattlelandAfghanistan
No (Safe) Room at the Inn
Beyond the Keystone Pipeline
Why Obama’s alternative-energy agenda may be his biggest legacy
The Hunt for K-129
Chilling Cold War stories are always better experienced on your computer screen than aboard a dank, cramped and doomed Soviet Golf-class submarine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The missile-laden K-129 sub sank Mar. 8, 1968, …
A Shuttle Veteran Celebrates Her Spacecraft
Marsha Ivins, who bet her life on the shuttle Atlantis, pays the retired ship a visit
BattlelandMissile Defense
Dracula’s Missile Defense 2.0
Learning from the Netherlands: Colorado and Washington Lay Out Rules for Legal Toking
If you want to get stoned legally — at least under state law— in Washington or Colorado next year, you’ll have to do it at home.
“If the cuts continue, the department will have to make sharp cuts with far-reaching consequences, including limiting combat power, reducing readiness and undermining the national security interests of the United States.”
— Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, warning of the impact of continuing the 10% annual reductions in Pentagon spending mandated by sequestration without a budget deal between the Congress and the White House.
Hypocrisy Abounds As Senate Teeters Again On Nuclear Brink
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to meet Thursday with his fellow Democrats to discuss taking extraordinary measures—commonly called the “Nuclear Option”—that would do away with filibusters of some of the …