“Look at the current level of air defense and anti-missile defense -- these aircraft will not get anywhere. Not ours, not theirs.”
BattlelandIEDs
“Lights! Camera! GAO?”
Battleland recalls when Government Accountability Office reports were issued with light-blue covers, not the dark-blue ones they’ve been sporting for a couple of decades. And when G.A.O. stood for General Accounting Office, until Congress decided that sounded too meek (GAO works only for Congress; for years reporters called it the …
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BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
U.S. Military Suicides in 2012: 155 Days, 154 Dead
New Pentagon data show U.S. troops are killing themselves at the rate of nearly one a day so far in 2012, 18% above 2011’s corresponding toll. “The continual rise in the suicide rate has frustrated all in the military,” says …
The Eyes Have It
BattlelandPhilippines
Welcome Back!
Twenty years after the Philippines kicked the U.S. military out of its huge bases – Clark for the Air Force, and Subic Bay for the Navy – Manila is now welcoming U.S. forces back into the country. “They can come here …
BattlelandArms Control
The “Secret Deal”
Rep. Mike Turner, the Ohio Republican who chairs the armed services committee’s strategic subcommittee, remains alarmed by President Obama’s hot-mic chit-chat with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. In March, Obama told Medvedev that Obama would have “more flexibility” if he’s re-elected to hammer out a new arms-control …
“We are fighting a war in the FATA.”
BattlelandAir Force
Art Attack
Those Air Force guys – some of them, at least – are so uncouth. Now they’re complaining about the artwork gracing Air Force hallways inside the Pentagon. Take this painting, for example. “It looks like the F-16 just …
$400 million
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Sequestration or Not, Defense Budget to Continue Its Decline
While many in Washington assume that Congress will solve sequestration by the end of the year–the problem Congress created when the Super Committee failed–recent comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) indicate …
BattlelandIntelligence
“Cost Realism”?
Nasty little bit of CIA business spilled into public Wednesday when those green-eyeshaded meanies over at the Government Accountability Office rapped Langley’s knuckles for favoring one contractor over another.
It seems the agency, seeking accounting and financial services for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (is …
