This morning’s report is more evidence that the thawing of the labor market has picked up speed of late.
BattlelandWar Story
Sky Pilot
Chaplains can be an important part of life for troops in combat. Chatting with Chappie can help them through tough times without the baggage they sense they’d incur by visiting their unit’s psychiatrist or other kind of …
“There’s an old saying in the Pentagon – they call it the mushroom theory, about civilian appointees: you bring them in, keep them in the dark for a year, feed ‘em bullshit, and harvest a new crop the next year.”
— Former Navy secretary and U.S. senator James Webb, speaking Thursday at the Center for the National Interest about the challenges facing new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel inside the Pentagon.
“Hey — Check Out Those Solar-Powered Streetlights!”
Sgt. 1st Class Freddy Bloom directs a patrol through the city of Chorah on Feb. 23.
President Obama’s New Meal Ticket Strategy
Through meeting and eating, the spirit of Washington is shifting, and the commonalities between the two parties are taking center stage for the first time in several years.
BattlelandMarines
“Frozen Chosen” Marines
TOKYO – Marines from I Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, slog through wind and snow during a joint training exercise with Japanese troops at the Hokkaido-Dai Maneuver Area in northern Japan last week. The exercise took …
BattlelandVeterans
Disruptive Impatience
Most folks working for the Department of Veterans Affairs are good people dedicated to their mission. But not all are.
Come to find out, the same thing’s true of their patients, according to the charmingly-titled new report, …
The Art of the Possible: Moving Mountains in Afghanistan
Near the end of the summer in 1992, Lt. Gen. Gus Pagonis, the logistical wizard behind the overwhelming coalition victory in the first Gulf War, published a book called Moving Mountains. Part memoir, part leadership guide, the book described the gargantuan task of basically moving the population of Alaska, along with their stuff, halfway …
“These Budget Cuts Are Crippling Our Military.”
As they say in hockey: keep your eye on the blue line. Click on chart to enlarge.
Zimmerman Lawyers Waive ‘Stand Your Ground’ Hearing
In a surprise move leading up to the murder trial of George Zimmerman, defense lawyers have waived his right to a “stand your ground” hearing, removing the last major barrier to bringing the case to trial this summer.
BattlelandMilitary Justice
A Military-Justice Immelman?
In flying, an Immelman is a kind of looping turn, popular during World War I, that sends an aircraft in the opposite direction.
Did the U.S. Air Force just pull an Immelman in the sexual-misconduct case of Lieut. Colonel James …
BattlelandAsia-Pacific
Hollywood Looks At Pivotal Moment In Postwar Japan
TOKYO – What with historical and territorial disputes with its neighbors and a rightward tilt in government, this might not seem the best time for a big-budget Hollywood production to come along and examine whether Japan’s …
The Pay Gap Is Not as Bad as You (and Sheryl Sandberg) Think
Women don’t make 77 cents to a man’s dollar. They make more like 93 cents, as long as they don’t major in art history