BattlelandNational Security
The Pentagon made it clear Wednesday: North Korea’s plan for a missile launch next month has led the U.S. to suspend its plans to provide food to North Korea’s starving millions.
“Our suspicions…were confirmed when North …
BattlelandMilitary Health
There are ancillary upsides to waging war and the defense spending that fuels it. It happens in technology – think the Internet and GPS, for the two most recent significant Pentagon-sparked advances – and medicine, …
BattlelandIran
Talk about back to the future. Tracing the rocket plumes that the U.S., Soviet Union and France blazed a half-century ago, Iran has announced plans to send a monkey into space before September.
“Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological capsule containing a monkey into space,” Hamid Fazeli, the chief of the of Iranian Space Agency, …
BattlelandAfghanistan
Seth Jones, a counter-insurgency expert now at the Rand Corp., and before that at the Pentagon, testifying at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Tuesday:
Us: “Today in Afghanistan we have about 432,000 counterinsurgency forces, we’ve spent over $100 billion per year…and deployed a range of sophisticated platforms …
BattlelandIsrael
Several ways to look at Tuesday’s announcement from Pentagon press secretary George Little:
1. It’s a push for Jewish votes in November’s presidential election.
2. It’s a carrot designed to convince Israel to keep its powder dry, and not attack Iran’s nuclear sites until after said election.
3. It’s a shield designed …
BattlelandMilitary Training
The Air Force Academy has just opened its new glider landing strip. It’s an area the size of 23 football fields carpeted in 1.3 million square feet of what the service calls “aviation turf.” The Air Force unveiled the …
BattlelandCool Military Acronyms
— Dynamic Application and Rapid Targeting software — DARTS — which helps the U.S. Strategic Command plan where to aim its nuclear missiles (given the Pentagon’s emphasis on jointness, shouldn’t it be JARTS? You remember, the lawn-dart game that the federal government banned in 1988 because it deemed it too dangerous? Hardly seems fair …
BattlelandForeign Policy
Amid the troubles in Afghanistan, it’s worth thumbing through the State Department inspector general’s report on our embassy in Vietnam released Tuesday. Basically, the 835 folks there – fewer than 200 of them Americans – …
BattlelandMilitary History
TOKYO – On a clear night in March 1945, more than 300 U.S. B-29 bombers launched one of the most devastating air raids in history. By dawn, more than 100,000 people were dead, a million were homeless, and 40 square kilometers …
BattlelandAfghanistan
The latest New York Times-CBS poll confirms what has become increasingly clear: nearly seven of 10 Americans want out of Afghanistan.
This should come as no surprise.
What comes as a surprise is the FDA-approved sugar …
