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Troops Would Delay Retirement Pay for Cash Now
Four out of five troops say they would be willing to wait until age 50 to begin drawing military retirement checks in return for a 1 percent basic pay raise now.
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B-1 Bomber Takes Us ‘Back To The Future’
President Obama's new military strategy is taking shape here on the sun-seared grasslands of West Texas where B-1 bomber pilots train.
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The Pentagon Has Become a Hostage in the War Over the Deficit
It seemed a good idea at the time. But sequestration, an ugly word for an ugly thing, now threatens to rip the heart out of America’s defence budget.
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Why The Army’s Experimenting With Laser-Guided Lightning
There's been a fair bit of buzz online of late over experiments with a technology called a "laser-induced plasma channel" – essentially, laser-guided, artificially generated lightning bolts – at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. But, militarily, what's it good for?
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Defense Cuts Of $500 Billion Vex Officials As Ax Nears
/.../With $500 billion in cuts to U.S. defense programs over 10 years set to begin on Jan. 2, industry contractors and analysts say the challenge isn’t only the amount of the cuts, it’s how they’ll be managed. They are waiting to hear if the approach in Anderson’s era will apply -- the White House hasn’t said whether it’ll give the Pentagon the authority to make choices within broad categories of spending, or whether it’ll require rigid program-by-program cuts.
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Yes, Fewer Boots On The Ground
Boot-centric warfare (BCW) is a resilient idea. It holds that the war is not truly engaged in, let alone won, until a rifleman's boots are on the ground.