List of Military articles
-
The cover of "Destination Casablanca." (Public Affairs) Book Excerpt: ‘Destination Casablanca’
The naval battle of Casablanca began with airplanes.
-
A reindeer. (Wikimedia Commons) Travels with Mattis: Finnish Edition
From the transcript of a “Media Availability with Secretary Mattis” yesterday:
-
Girl Scout cookies (Masayuki Kawagishi/Flickr) Girls Scouts & Cybersecurity
I read recently in a new publication, ‘Rand Review,’ that the Girl Scouts now have a cybersecurity badge.
-
(Foreign Policy illustration The Messaging App Fueling Syria’s Insurgency
Are you a Syrian rebel in need of U.S.-manufactured assault rifles, or even a tank? You can buy it on Telegram.
-
A parable. (Wikimedia Commons) My Modest Proposal For a New Professional U.S. Military Magazine
I’d call my new military magazine PIVOT: The Journal of Conventional Military Wisdom.
-
The cast of the HBO miniseries "Band Of Brothers." (HBO via Getty Images) The beginning of ‘Band of Brothers’ as a primer on good military leadership
Band of Brothers is a miniseries about the exploits of the soldiers of E Company, 2/506 PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) from their initial training until the end of World War II in Europe.
-
Sailors help Zeus, one of two dogs accompanying two mariners who were aided by the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Clay/Released) Sailors rescue Zeus
A sea dog gets some relief.
-
(Left to right) Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea's President Alpha Conde, U.S. President Donald Trump, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on May 27 in Taormina, Sicily. (Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Dangerous Retreat from Africa
The U.S. administration is ramping up military engagement on the continent but ramping everything else down. Other countries are already filling the void.
-
The logo of the U.S. Marshall Plan. (Wikimedia Commons) Quote of the day: Dubik on winning wars
"Battles and campaigns are won by fighting; wars are won by what happens after the fighting.”
-
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Tate Whitener, a 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker pilot, prepares for takeoff at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Jan. 3. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew B. Fredericks) A letter from 4th deployment purgatory
An officer wards off boredom with bad food, booze, and Russia Today during a layover in Al Udeid.
-
U.S. soldiers on a training mission. (Department of Defense) A Marine sergeant on how much he learned from being in an OPFOR
“Having served as an infantryman for four and a half years, I learned more about tactics and how to employ Marines more effectively in the 10 days spent at the experiment in the desert than I did in the entirety of my service."
-
A U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot prepares for a flight at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on February 1, 2016. (U.S. Air Force) The Private Air Force Preparing U.S. Pilots for the Next War
For years, the U.S. military secretly flew Russian aircraft. Now it needs a cheaper option.
-
U.S. soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a medevac helicopter on Aug. 23, 2011. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) A Best Defense fiction special for Halloween: ‘An Occurrence at Khan Hill’
His eyes bulged out, as the tip of the pistol slammed into the back wall of his throat.
-
A port bow view of the British nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Valiant. (John Bouvia, Department of Defense) Reliefs, firings, misdeeds, crashes, affairs, drug use and other military mischief
A big Halloween roundup
-
A screenshot from Project Azriel, a cognitive training game. (Courtesy of CurriculaWorks) Can the Navy’s Million-Dollar Zombie Game Turn You Into a Supersoldier?
I wanted to see if killing the undead would make me smarter.
