BattlelandMilitary Spending
Nearly two weeks into the sequester, there’s no sign of compromise on the horizon. This could stick for a while, apparently. The Marines, for example, are slated to lose $1.4 billion out of their planned spending through …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Grappling with the challenges of soldiers back from war is a challenge. Nothing makes that more clear than the up-and-down year that an Army doctor, Colonel Dallas Homas, the top doc at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base …
“The bombs that went off in Kabul and Khost [Saturday] were not a show of power to America, but were in service to America...It was in the service of foreigners not withdrawing from Afghanistan.”
Here’s a hard truth: all the emotion and outrage and sadness that followed the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting may make almost no difference in federal gun control laws.
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
“I don't think it quite yet rises to that level, but it certainly is trending in that direction.”
Six exhaust-spewing Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes training over Japan’s Yokota air base Feb. 21.
In 17 years under Kim Jong Il, North Korea grabbed the world’s attention with several missile tests, a pair of nuclear detonations and a big helping of threats.
Kim’s youngest son and successor has hit all those highlights …
Faced with a dismal job market, the legal profession may be undergoing fundamental change
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle has been dead for just over a month, but already there’s a plan afoot to honor the sniper forever in bronze.
Greg Marra from Sarasota, Fla., has created a life-size sculpture of the 6-foot-3 Kyle …
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets Marine General Joe Dunford after landing in Kabul March 8.
BattlelandCounter-Insurgency
Skimming Pentagon contract announcements and solicitations can give one a sense of just how much the federal government is trying to do in the national-security arena.
But sometimes you come across one that makes you scratch …
