BattlelandMilitary Benefits
Not sure how to react to the news that the Defense Logistics Agency’s subsistence shop is in the market for doughnuts – lots of doughnuts – for the Navy. Never thought a chocolate-frosted, cream-filled confection could …
If the past four years are any guide, listen closely to what Obama says he plans to do. It’ll probably happen.
Airman Lee Borytsky scans the perimeter around his guard tower on Bagram Airfield, Jan. 10.
BattlelandMilitary Personnel
Military personnel policy is equal parts art and science. If it were all science, the Pentagon and its military services would have figured out long ago how to get the most out of each man and woman in uniform, give them …
The Harbaugh brothers, Jim and John, will face off in the Super Bowl when the San Francisco 49ers meet the Baltimore Ravens.
BattlelandWeapons
After fretting for months that a “critical part” of the world’s biggest bunker-busting bomb was flawed, the Pentagon declared last week that the mammoth blaster is at last fixed and ready for use – against Iran, or any other …
BattlelandVeterans
The VA keeps insisting it is getting its disability-claims backlog under control. Not according to a Government Accountability Office report released Friday.
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have penned a 28-star letter to Congress warning that the U.S. military is at a “tipping point” in the face of future budgetary reductions and uncertainty. The chiefs paint a grim …
Oh, the weather outside is frightful. No, seriously: for a good portion of the United States, it’s awful, freezing, slushy, gross. Thankfully, some intrepid souls have always made it their business to get out there the moment the …
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is seeking industry guidance on replacing the nation’s current fleet of 450 Minuteman III land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles sprinkled across Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming …
“Let's talk about China. We're…trying to bring -- and I think doing a fairly good job -- of bringing China in a responsible part into a -- into a world power in here. But as we do that, I think it's important to recognize, for any history majors out there, have we ever been successful in that -- in the past? Anybody? I'll take your silence as no, we've never been successful in the past.”
Squeezy the Pension Python has its grip around the Land of Lincoln.
