BattlelandDrones
Drones may not be the future of warfare, but they certainly are a part of the future of warfare. While they aren’t as inexpensive as many folks believe (as Winslow Wheeler detailed on Battleland last February), they are filling a …
On Wednesday, Colleen Ozolitis, and her wife, Lee Ann Martinson, drove together to their son’s Seattle preschool to share their family’s good news.
At least 10 F-18 Super Hornets — worth nearly $1 billion — crowd the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as it sailed for the final time across the Atlantic Ocean Oct. 30 ahead of its Dec. 1 retirement.
Now that the U.S. Presidential election is out of the way, it’s time to turn our collection attentions to the true purpose of November.
At every election, California‘s ballot is filled with initiatives, but none received more attention this year than Proposition 37.
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Faced with the prospect of more spending cuts, the defense industry has been arguing that they would cripple many local economies by ending well-paying jobs in the weapons-building sector. In fact, the Aerospace Industries …
BattlelandAir Force
On Wednesday, the Air Force announced it is spending $12 million for “additional work” on the F-22’s “automatic backup oxygen supply.” The F-22’s oxygen system has been trouble for the plane’s pilots for years. Apparently, pilots in need of backup oxygen may have to hold their breath until 2015, 10 years after their plane …
For the first time, two American states have legalized recreational use and sales of marijuana
Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans, and the lifetime risk among healthy Americans remains dangerously high.
Early on the morning of Nov. 4, 2008, I gathered up my things, and like most days that year headed out on a mission into southern Baghdad. After a quiet patrol on a chilly day, my troops and I came back to our base just in time …
BattlelandNavy
With President Obama’s re-election, GOP candidate Mitt Romney’s plans to boost U.S. Navy shipbuilding from 10 to 15 warships a year are history. Could we look back on the electoral result as a turning point?
Under current …
BattlelandPolitics
Tuesday was Election Day. I have voted in every Presidential election since 1972, when I was first able to vote at age 20. Congress finally figured out that if you could fight and die for your country, then you surely could vote …
NBC Chicago reports that a 21-year-old pregnant woman managed to squeeze in time to vote in her first presidential election on her way to the hospital to give birth to her first baby girl.
