BattlelandAfghanistan
The disasters over the last three months — including American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, burning Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one American soldier — have …
BattlelandPresident Obama
…you sure you want Air Force One pilot training going to the lowest bidder?” (h/t astronaut Alan Shepard)
BattlelandDefense Contractors
Is a Pentagon contractor doing business with Iran, the North Star of the Axis of Evil (NSAE)? Former Time comrade Adam Zagorin probes the relationship among the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company, Tehran, and the Pentagon. It’s an investigation for the Project on Government Oversight, an independent stone unturner. “Amid renewed …
BattlelandAir Force
You have to wonder if the Air Force can’t get its W-2 forms straight for 30,000 airmen – about 10% of the force – how can it help manage the financially-troubled $400 billion F-35 program? It seems changes in state tax laws – don’t these happen every year? – weren’t properly folded into the W-2 calculations the Pentagon’s …
BattlelandAfghanistan
Army Lieut. Colonel David Oclander knows a thing about trying to turn lemons into lemonade in Afghanistan:
In 2010 I was responsible for the accidental death of two little girls in a remote village in Southern Afghanistan. The events occurred in a village that sat in the middle of a critical valley that the Afghan Army and my
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BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Since my first post March 20 about the possibility that Staff Sergeant Robert Bales may have been on the anti-malaria drug Lariam (mefloquine), I have received many comments and e-mails on the issue. Bales has been charged with murdering 17 Afghan civilians last month outside Kandahar.
There is a lot more in the literature since a …
BattlelandMilitary Health
Seven-hundred and thirty days. That’s the average length of time – two years – that a wounded Marine spends at Camp Lejeune’s Wounded Warrior Battalion before leaving the corps. If you think two years as a patient is too …
BattlelandSpecial Operations
First award listed in the Pentagon’s Tuesday contract announcements is a cool half-billion to buy something Battleland has never heard of, to a company Battleland has never heard of:
The company is run by a special-ops vet, who conveniently has set up shop in Tampa, home of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Wouldn’t it be …
“One senior political source said the military trumps any objections to its recommendations by warning lives will be lost if they don’t get their way.”
BattlelandClose-up
The U.S. military’s best “shooters” have competed to be the Military Photographer of the Year going back to 1960. Here are some of this year’s recently-announced winners.
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
TOKYO – It’s been a tough year for Japan, what with the earthquake and tsunami, North Korean nukes and China’s increasingly aggressive military. But there’s a silver lining for at least one part of Japanese society – …
