The sport known as SUP has been growing fast in California, Hawaii and along parts of the east coast since the mid 2000s. But in the last couple of years the surfing offshoot Stand Up Paddling has gone mainstream — and inland.
BattlelandArms sales
The U.S.: Arms Merchant to the Developing World
The Congressional Research Service’s latest annual compendium of global arms sales shows the U.S. to be the behemoth when it comes to such commerce. Some highlights:
— Per the pie chart, the U.S. accounted for 79% of the
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BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Book Learnin’
Military Medicine is the monthly journal of the Association of the Military Surgeons of the United States, and has long been one of my go-to outfits, tackling the difficulties of doing good medicine in austere places.
Its …
A Back-to-School Fight Over the Right to Classroom Prayer
Institutional Post-War PTSD
When the phrase PTSD surfaces, it’s always linked to individuals – usually troops returning from a war zone with the anxiety and hyper-awareness found among those with post-traumatic stress disorder.
But there’s a …
BattlelandMilitary Justice
N.J.P.
The U.S. military calls it “NJP” – non-judicial punishment. Civilians might liken it to a slap on the wrist, but it generally marks the end of the military career of anyone subject to it.
On Monday, the Pentagon announced …
The Dream Continues: Camilo José Vergara’s Photographs of MLK Murals
Anxiously Awaiting Isaac: Louisiana Gets Ready for a Hurricane
Just in time for the seventh anniversary of Katrina, Isaac barrels up the Gulf to a region that has learned to take storms seriously
BattlelandAfghanistan
2-to-1, We’re Losing
…at least that’s Monday’s “green-on-blue” score per this latest press announcement from the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
The two soldiers killed in Laghman province were Americans.
This is …
BattlelandMilitary Health
Training Troops for the Gore of War
Louis H. Smith IV has been an Army combat medic for a decade, and currently is serving in Afghanistan as the medical officer for the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment. He argues, in a recent post on Small Wars Journal, that …
BattlelandSpecial Operations
Bin Laden Raid SEAL Author Faces “Double Jeopardy”
If Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper can defy British royalty by publishing pictures of a naked Prince Harry, why should we be surprised when a Navy SEAL bares all in an upcoming book on the raid last year that killed Osama bin …
Q&A: Herman Cain Isn’t Looking for a Job from Romney, But He Has a Few Pointers
BattlelandVeterans
How Cops Can Best Deal With Vets
How should we keep veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and/or hearing loss from getting shot from altercations with police?
Police are increasingly the first responders for responding to …