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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Posts Tagged ‘military’
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…
G.I. Bill: Too Late?
By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pmI’ve written before about the potential problems with enacting the new G.I. Bill legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, but The Washington Post has a…
Thinking Twice About Air Power in Afghanistan
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pmVia Robert Farley, NATO has mandated that its troops in Afghanistan be more selective in their use of air power:
Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette, NATO’s…
Airstrikes and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pmThe New York Times reported yesterday that the military has concluded that 30 civilians were killed in an August 22nd airstrike, which was a higher…
An Update on Sexual Assault in the Military
By Kay Steiger - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pmVia Jezebel, the The Wall Street Journal reports that the Army is taking new approaches to the rising problem of sexual assault in the military.…
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 amI don’t understand this as either an electoral strategy or a long-term political one:
Robert Gates would fit in nicely as defense secretary in an…
Obama Comes Out Against Columbia’s ROTC Ban
By Matt Zeitlin - Sep 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pmIn response to the Vietnam War, and later to the military’s discriminatory policies against gays and lesbians, many elite college campuses both banned military recruiting…
Concerns on GI Bill Changes
By Kay Steiger - Sep 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pmThis summer Congress passed a widely anticipated GI Bill revision that was supposed to fix many of the problems that had been lingering since the…
Onward, Christian Soldier
By Kay Steiger - Aug 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pmVia Inside Higher Ed, the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled (pdf) yesterday that Temple Univesity’s sexual harassment policy, which was replaced…
How the Higher Ed Reauthorization Helps Veterans
By Kay Steiger - Aug 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pmHigher Ed Watch has a good breakdown of what’s good and bad about the Higher Ed Reauthorization Act, but it looks like the legislation works…
Deadly Showers in Iraq
By Aaron Ludensky - Jul 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pmFurther proof that the US government doesn’t do (or care) much for its soldiers: recent reports of electrocutions. No, it’s not because electrocution is used…
