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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For 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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Not 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…
Yesterday was Veterans Day, a holiday created to honor military veterans. However, the members of the Veterans of Modern Warfare and the Vietnam Veterans of…
Due 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…
I’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…
Via 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…
The New York Times reported yesterday that the military has concluded that 30 civilians were killed in an August 22nd airstrike, which was a higher…
Via Jezebel, the The Wall Street Journal reports that the Army is taking new approaches to the rising problem of sexual assault in the military.…
I 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…
In 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…
This summer Congress passed a widely anticipated GI Bill revision that was supposed to fix many of the problems that had been lingering since the…
Via 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…
Higher 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…
Further 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…