BattlelandMilitary Spending
Thursday morning, the Defending Defense coalition—The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foreign Policy Initiative—will host members of Congress discussing the negative consequences of the Obama …
BattlelandTroops
Even folks who don’t care for military matters love war dogs. So the U.S. Postal Service has just issued a set of four working-dog stamps, including a yellow Lab war dog (the other three are a black Labrador retriever guide dog, a Welsh springer spaniel therapy dog, and a German shepherd rescue dog). The 65-cent stamps, good for …
BattlelandWeapons
The F-16A first flew in 1975, followed by the F-16B (Battleland once sat in a B-model backseat for a stomach-tickling ride), F-16C. F-16D, F-16E, F-16F, F-16I, F-16IN, F-16N, F-16Q, and now: the F-16V. Manufacturer Lockheed …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
A long time ago, and far away, the U.S. invaded and occupied the Philippines. There are parallels to recent U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, down to torturing the enemy.
Journalist Gregg Jones has written Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial …
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
Pictures from Iran’s nuclear-development sites always seem to show Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touring some clean and pristine atomic facility in a bright white lab coat. He did it again Wednesday, visiting a Tehran …
BattlelandAir Force
Last week the Pentagon inspector general confirmed that its investigators are looking into the November 2010 fatal crash of an F-22 fighter. Pilots have long grumbled that the super-jet’s oxygen-supply system doesn’t always …
BattlelandWeapons
IEDs are an interesting tool of war: they have accounted for nearly half of the U.S. KIAs in recent years, and their very simplicity is an erect middle finger to U.S. military might and technological prowess. The Pentagon’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization has just issued its Counter-Improvised Explosive Device …
BattlelandMilitary Women
Following last week’s decision by the Pentagon to change some of the conditions under which servicewomen can serve in a limited number of combat roles, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta attacked the Department of Defense for increasing spending on support programs for victims of sexual assault. Trotta proffers that “servicewomen want …
BattlelandAuthor Q&A
Baghdad-born Joseph Sassoon has peeked into the heart and soul of the late Saddam Hussein and his Ba’th party, thanks to the millions of documents, audiotapes and other regime remnants the U.S. military collected inside their homeland following the 2003 U.S. invasion.
In Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party: Inside an Authoritarian …
BattlelandCounter-Insurgency
BattlelandVeterans
The Pentagon brass are trekking to Capitol Hill this week to detail how they’re trimming their budgets now that all U.S. troops are out of Iraq, and have begun coming home from Afghanistan. But it’s important to remember that wars’ costs last far longer than wars’ duration.
Here’s a new chart from the Department of …
BattlelandNuclear Weapons
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The Obama Administration is considering slashing the nation’s nuclear arsenal to as few as 300 deployed strategic nuclear weapons, Robert Burns of the AP reports. That’s an 80% cut from the 1,550 currently permitted under Washington’s treaty with the Russians.
Certain circles …
