Those of a certain age will recall the 1970s’ pop band Three Dog Night, named for very cold nights in the Australian outback when aborigines would sleep with three dingoes to keep warm.
Welcome to the Two Dog South Korean …
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North Dakota, a Portrait of an Oil Boom
North Dakota’s oil boom has been called everything from the region’s equivalent of a gold rush, to its version of Silicon Valley. And it’s all thanks to a the Bakken formation, a 360 million year old shale tectonic plate sitting …
“Today I am directing the Office of General Counsel to prepare legislation for Congress to amend Article 60 [by] eliminating the discretion for a convening authority to change the findings of a court-martial, except for certain minor offenses that would not ordinarily warrant trial by court-martial.”
— Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday, in a statement saying he will push to end senior officers’ ability to overrule court-martial decisions. He launched a review into such powers after an Air Force general last month overturned a court-martial ruling that an Air Force lieutenant colonel (and fellow pilot) had not sexually assaulted a woman in his house at Italy’s Aviano air base last year, after a court martial found him guilty as charged and sent him to the brig for a year.
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Smoke & Mirrors Alert: Pentagon’s 2014 Budget Proposal Drops Wednesday
[WARNING: For serious national-security budget experts only. May cause headaches, blurry vision and heart palpitations among normal taxpayers. The editors.]
Pentagon budget rollouts are always part fact, part fiction, with …
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Search and Destroy Mission: Hitler’s Warship
Adolf Hitler gets deservedly bad historical reviews, but he makes for great reading. The latest in that category is The Hunt for Hitler’s Warship by British military correspondent and historian Patrick Bishop. His new books …
Size Matters: Smaller Dishes Could Cut Childhood Obesity
The latest study shows one way to fight childhood obesity may be to shrink the size of the dinner plate.
OK….So It’s Not Quite Inchon…
U.S. Marines cross a river in Helmand province March 28.
Can the Boutique ‘Store-Within-a-Store’ Concept Save Big Box Retailers from Extinction?
When successful, a store within the store will improve the appeal of both brands involved. That’s especially important for a retailer presumed to be on its deathbed.
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Semper Sigh…
The Marines are the neatest military service (at least in their eyes) and the other military services know it (at least in their eyes).
This drives the Army, Air Force and Navy up the wall.
It particularly bugs the Navy, …
Report: Google Fiber Coming to Austin as Cities Race to Boost Web Speeds
America’s weirdest city is about to get wired.
Google Fiber is coming to Austin, Texas, according to multiple reports. If …
$9.16 Billion
— How much President Obama will seek for missile defense in his proposed 2014 Pentagon budget, slated for release Wednesday, according to Bloomberg News. That's nearly 6% less than 2013's $9.71 billion missile-defense total. Let the fireworks begin.
Evangelicos: A Way Back for the GOP
Before Republicans can win evangélicos over, they have to know who they really are.
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Peace Breaking Out?
First came word that the Musudan medium-range ballistic missiles North Korea is moving to its eastern coast are likely to be launched only as a test, not an attack (although this could prove troublesome if a test missile goes …