FARAH Province — It’s been an amazing experience out here in western Afghanistan, where I spent the last nine months. I’ve had the opportunity to work with local communicators as a liaison to the local Provincial Reconstruction …
BattlelandNational Security
The Hastings-Snowden Axis: What’s Going On?
The tragic death of reporter Michael Hastings last week, and the flight of NSA leader Edward Snowden this week, suggest — crudely but effectively — why the center of U.S. national-security strategy is weakening.
What Airline Whistleblowers Have to Say About the New Theory on Flight 800
There may be enough smoking guns to warrant reopening the investigation
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Pondering PTSD Progress
The beauty of last Saturday morning, so close by the Capitol’s gleaming dome, made the incongruity of discussing post-traumatic stress disorder all the more startling.
But that’s what we were there to do by commemorating …
Looming Student Loan Spike Stirs Controversy
Over seven million college students will see their subsidized student-loan rates double on July 1 if Congress can’t reach a compromise to avert the hike
The Great 1980s TIME Giveaway Gadgets
Once upon a time, there were TIME-branded tech products–lots of them. Here’s their story.
BattlelandIntelligence
When Something’s Not Quite Right
You might get a sense something’s a little fishy when Company 1 bids half the total of Company 2 for a year-long contract to “ensure that the ORION O2 program is successfully and seamlessly integrated onto the ORION Data …
Exercise Alone Can Melt Away Dangerous Belly Fat in Diabetics
Just by increasing their physical activity, people with type 2 diabetes can lose fat that accumulates in the liver and abdomen and lower their risk of heart problems.
Fresh from War, Veterans Need Interpreters to Land Jobs
School for Scandal: A Brief History of Hard-Nosed Politics in Campus Elections
A recent campaign controversy at a top New York City public school is only the latest in a long tradition of big conflicts in small-time races
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Up Next: Scum
An Army contract announced Monday:
McMillen LLC, Boise, Idaho, was awarded a firm-fixed-price, option-included contract with a value of $10,088,000 for the maintenance and development of ponds in Napa, Calif., with the goal of
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California Corrections: How a State Picks Thousands of Inmate to Take Out of Prison
Last week, a three-judge panel ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by almost 10,000 inmates before the end of the year.
A One-Time SEAL on Those Female SEAL-Wannabes
The decision to scrap the Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule of 1994 by then-defense secretary Leon Panetta earlier this year did not immediately put women into combat.
But it has led to Pentagon review of how …