Tag: pentagon

- The politicians, generals (if there be a difference), and assorted hacks and kiss-asses appearing on the news shows to discuss the epidemic of suicide...

- David M Kennedy of Stanford Univeristy: “The army is at war, but the country is not. We have managed to create and field...

Update: The Hill reports that Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin has now been disinvited from testifying at the confirmation hearing of Elena Kagan. Looks...

A recent analyis has shown the 40 year old American M-16 rifle to be a failure in Afghanistan. The weapon that caused more American deaths in Vietnam than the enemy is still junk technology today, even with its Star Wars derivitives. The result is still "Palinesque" or as I would call it, "lipstick on a pig." The wrong design, the wrong cartridge, no range, no stopping power and poor reliability, 40 years of failure in the most important area of the battlefield, our combat rifle. This wasn't an accident but part of our defense tradition, fighting wars with junk, fighting wars meant to eat money, put fighting men and women under the dirt, fighting wars meant to go on forever, as long as the money flows. A new study, over 40 years late, challenges our basic infantry weapon's effectiveness:

Though informed sources who shot down the Bush-Cheney administration's false propaganda program on Iraq are now knocking down the AIPAC-pushed "Iran threat," the Obama administration appears...

Bigoty is on the run, as the fight for a secular armed forces escalates. By DAN ELLIOTT, DENVER – The Army is considering whether to rescind...

The megacontractor’s been making millions from mechanics who put in as little as 43 minutes a month. And as more GIs come home, the...

GENERAL BARNO, THE MAN WHO LED THE HUNT FOR LONG DEAD BIN LADEN NOW IN HOT WATER By Josh Rogin  for The Cable (thecable.foreignpolicy.com) Retired Lt....

This video from Brave New Films: Rethink Afghanistan is related to the article I posted mentioning “Operation Moshtarak”, called Marja, Afghanistan:...

THIS IS "BETWEEN US" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I just returned from the region after a REMF "combat tour" of my own, 5 star...

Establishment liberals are presenting President Obama's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) released this week as a break from the Bush-Cheney-neocon policy. Fair to say that the jury is out.

Mounting budget deficits for the foreseeable future may "greatly hamper" the U.S.' ability to wage pointless wars, a leading Pentagon general says. According to Gen. Blanton Creegan, "The days of our invading a country for no reason whatsoever may be at an end." Gen. Creegan adds, "In the past, we were able to start a war with a country simply because we said they might have WMD - now, we may actually have to check first."

   C U R R E N T   N E W S E A R L Y   B I R D January 22, 2010   Use of these news items does...

      We received this comment on a previous article on the unsavory practice of the Pentagon recalling members of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR)....

by DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping...