No Purple Heart for PTSD
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 8th, 2009 at 10:17 amSo says the DoD. That seems wrong to me–post-traumatic stress disorder can be extraordinarily debilitating, and there’s no question that those soldiers who suffer from…
Posts Tagged ‘military’
Didn’t James Cameron Tell Us This Was A Bad Idea?
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 6th, 2009 at 9:59 amWhile most kids, if they’re Christian, learn their life lessons from the Bible (or, if they’re Jewish, the collected works of Chaim Potok), I learned…
War Is Not a Game
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 5th, 2009 at 3:11 pmThe New York Times has a story about the Army’s latest effort to recruit young people: namely, the “Army Experience Center,” a video game arcade/recruiting…
Powell Pivot
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 12th, 2008 at 11:40 amFirst Sam Nunn said Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is worth “taking another look at,” now this:
[Colin] Powell is the expected guest on CNN’s GPS…
Your Word For Me Is Fusion, but Is Real Change An Illusion?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmObviously, the big Obama event today was his press conference on his health care team and the Blagojevich scandal, but he also has this on…
We Need More of This
By Jesse Singal - Dec 11th, 2008 at 11:14 amAP:
The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon cannot afford continued cost overruns and is hinting that some weapons systems may be cut or…
Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmOne of the ravages of modern warfare is the cluster bomb. The way most of these bombs work is by spraying “bomblets” all over the…
The American military as seen by an eight year old
By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 amVia Yglesias, I see that Bill Kristol wants to get his war on:
And while [Bush is] at it, perhaps he could tell various admirals to…
Isn’t a Robot Governor Enough?
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pmWhen I first read this story from The New York Times, my initial reaction was to find anyone I could named John Connor and hide…
Endgame in Sight?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, the AP reports:
President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline…
Milestone
By Jesse Singal - Nov 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pmFor the first time, a woman is a four-star general. Congratulations to Ann E. Dunwoody, who has served in the military for 33 years.
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Navy 1, Whales 0
By Jamie Henn - Nov 12th, 2008 at 4:39 pmNot that I really thought an underwater creature would triumph over the United States military, but today’s Supreme Court decision is still a bummer. The…
Veterans Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Benefits
By Annabel Gould - Nov 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pmYesterday was Veterans Day, a holiday created to honor military veterans. However, the members of the Veterans of Modern Warfare and the Vietnam Veterans of…
Why Couldn’t They Spend $15 Million Turning Them Into Food?
By L. Russell Allen - Oct 30th, 2008 at 11:49 amDue only to circumstance, I caught one segment on Wednesday’s edition of CBS’s The Early Show. How lucky for me that this one segment was…
