Triumph| More...
 

Us Military

G.I. Jane Breaks The Combat Barrier: Number Of High-Ranking Military Women Rising Considerably

nytimes.com | LIZETTE ALVAREZ | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Gender Discrimination, Military Ranks, Gender Discrimination, War in Afghanistan, u.s. War in Iraq, Women in the Military, U.S. Military, Gender, Politics News

Before 2001, America's military women had rarely seen ground combat. Their jobs kept them mostly away from enemy lines, as military policy dictates. ...

Read Whole Story

Town Halls: Don't Confuse Me with the Facts, My Mind Is Made Up

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Deficits, Government Bureaucracy, Government Takeover, As Good as It Gets, Socialism, Health Reform, Health Care Reform Town Halls, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

There is little opportunity for a dialogue in which facts are presented if the people you are talking to have already made up their minds. BUT, if you want an effective Town Hall, here's some advice.

Read Post

We Need Sestak (and More Vets) in the Senate

Jon Soltz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, US Military, Jon Soltz, Afghanistan, votevets.org, Joe Sestak Specter, Senator Arlen Specter, Veterans, Politics, Senate, Iraq Veterans, Afghanistan Veterans, Pennsylvania, Military, Votevets, Joe Sestak, Politics News
Jon Soltz

There are only three combat vets left. We need more because the values that war veterans learn, that they operate under, and that they carry with them after military life could help Capitol Hill.

Read Post

GOP Sen.: Let's Not 'Rumsfeld' The War In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Troops, U.S. Military, Rumsfeld, u.s. In Afghanistan, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, "Rumsfeld" the War, U.S. Troops, Lindsey Graham, Face the Nation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must no...

Read Whole Story

Military Analysts: Climate Change Will Pose "Profound Strategic Challenges" To U.S. Security

nytimes.com | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Induced Crisis, u.s. Security, Military Analyists, Climate Change, U.S. Military, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of mili...

Read Whole Story

The Army Official And The Contractor: A $191 Million "Friendship"

The Washington Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Technology Contractors, Bearingpoint, U.S. Army, George Raymond, Military Contractors, Catherine Campbell, U.S. Military, Politics News

He called her Princess. She called him Bubba. They got together whenever they could, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, traveling to business conferences,...

Read Whole Story

Obama Celebrates Post-9/11 G.I. Bill

AP | JULIE PACE and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, President Obama, U.S. Military, G.I. Bill, Soldiers, US Army, Education, Veterans, Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, September 11th, Politics News

FAIRFAX, Va. — President Barack Obama said Monday a new GI Bill for those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is an investment in both a new gene...

Read Whole Story

Can Soccer Save Iraq?

James Denselow | Posted 09.02.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Government, US Military, Peace, Soccer, World News
James Denselow

The Iranian football team showed recently how sport could be used to make a high-profile political statement. Could Iraq's football team bring home a sense of national unity currently lacking?

Read Post

Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire

Chalmers Johnson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Empire, US Military, Military, Afghanistan, Military Spending, Foreign Affairs, Imperialism, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Chalmers Johnson

Few empires of the past voluntarily gave up their dominions in order to remain independent, self-governing polities. If we do not learn from their examples, our decline and fall is foreordained.

Read Post

U.S. Advisor's Memo On Iraq: Time To "Go Home"

The New York Times | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: Timothy R. Reese, Sofa, Robert Gates, Ray Odierno, Iraqi Army, Iraq War, General Petraeus, Iraq, American Military, Status of Forces Agreement, Nouri Al Maliki, U.S. Military, World News

A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that the Iraqi forces suffer from deeply entrenched deficiencie...

Read Whole Story

Guantanamo Justice Center: Ex-Detainees Launch Gitmo Inmates' Rights Group

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantnamo, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo Inmates, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, U.S. Military, Sami Al-Haj, Gitmo Rights Group, Guantanamo Detainees Rights, Torture, Enhanced Interrogation, Bush Administration, Cia, Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, Military Prison, Politics News

GENEVA — Former Guantanamo Bay detainees have launched an organization to help released inmates return to normal life and to lobby for the relea...

Read Whole Story

F-22 Vote Worries Arms Investors

William Hartung | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Institute for Policy Studies, Unified Security Budget, US Military, F-22s, Foreign Policy in Focus, Us Military Spending F22s, US Military Spending, Politics News
William Hartung

Even with the president and the secretary of defense on the right side, it took what President Eisenhower called "an alert and knowledgeable citizenry" to put the anti-F-22 effort over the top.

Read Post

US Stops Giving Militant Death Tolls In Afghanistan

AFP | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

Read More: United States Military, Militant Death Tolls, Military, War in Afghanistan, Death Tolls, U.S. Soldiers, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, World News

The US military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing figures showing how many militants have been killed in fighting with US-led forces, officials sai...

Read Whole Story

Defense Secretary Scores Spending Cuts, But Not Satisfied: "It Would Be Nice To Win Our Current Wars"

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Department of Defense, US Military, Afghanistan, F-22, Weapons, Defense Budget, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Military Spending, US Military Spending, Iraq, Robert Gates, Defense Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...

Read Whole Story

The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of

Randall Amster | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Anemia, US Military, Military, Newborns, Health, Screening, Food Additives, Racism, Food, Genetics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Soy, g6pd, Malaria, The Balanced Life, Living News
Randall Amster

G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.

Read Post

A Victory For Sensible Defense

The Progress Report | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, F-22, Robert Gates, Obama Military, Congress Mili, US Military, Military Spending, Military Budget, Politics News
The Progress Report

The Center for American Progress Action Fund has launched the Sensible Defense campaign to "hold Congress accountable for putting wasteful defense spending back into the budget."

Read Post

US Military Commander: US Troops Under "House Arrest" In Iraq

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: u.s. Military in Iraq, American Troops in Iraq, u.s. War in Iraq, American Combat Troops, Iraq, Iraq War, U.S. Military, World News

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military has turned down requests from American forces to move unescorted through Baghdad and conduct a raid since the trans...

Read Whole Story

The Undoing of Gen. T. Michael Moseley: A Cautionary Tale About the Military/Industrial Complex

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Dod, US Military, Thunderbirds, Hornburg, Military, Favoritism, Air Force, Nuclear Missiles, Waste, Military-Reform, Edward Shipley, Secretary Wynne, Justice Department, Military Contracts, Veterans, T. Michael Moseley, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.

Read Post

Afghanistan Villages Threatened By US Military Over Kidnapped Soldier

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: US Military, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan Villages Threatened, Afghan War, Foreign Affairs, Propganda, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Bagram, Us Military Pamphlets, Bagram Air Base, Surge in Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Advocacy, Paktika, Ghazni, Kidnapped American Soldier Afganistan, Kid Napped Soldier Afghanistan, Missing Soldier Pamphlets You Will Be Hunted, Military Flier Missing Soldier, Us Soldier Kidnapped, Kidnapped Soldiers, Kidnapped Soldier in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Fliers, World News

In the aftermath of a US soldier's abduction by Afghan Taliban forces, the US military is disbursing leaflets in two towns near particularly dangerous...

Read Whole Story

Probing the Pentagon: Are Gays Really More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis?

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Congress, Pentagon, Domestic Terrorism, U.S. Military, Homeland Security, Neo-Nazis, White-Supremacists, Politics News
J. Richard Cohen

A neo-Nazi skinhead who wants to obtain weapons and combat training to use in a future, domestic "race war" can most likely continue serving in the US army with impunity.

Read Post

Military EATR Robot Could Feed On Dead Bodies On Battlefield

Fox News | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Robotic Technology Inc., Military, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Technology, Robots, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, Eatr, World News

It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology -- and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to...

Read Whole Story

Where Are the Afghans?

Gordon Adams | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, US Military, Terrorists, Afghan War, Afghanistan, Taliban, Provincial Reconstruction Teams, Peacemaking, Kyrgyzstan, World News
Gordon Adams

Where are the Afghans? Gordon Adams 8 July 2009 "What I need is more Afghans," Says General Nicolson. "We can't read these people; we're different...

Read Post

Athena Crossing the Potomac

Rachel Natelson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sikh, Women's Rights, Department of Veterans Affairs, US Military, Military Sexual Trauma, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Violence Against Women, Sexual Assault, Veterans, Emergency Contraception, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Iraq Veterans, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, Military Sexual Assaults, Women and Politics, Politics News
Rachel Natelson

Many figures have decried the inequity of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the president and Congress to repeal the law. However, one community has remained resolutely silent: national veterans service organizations.

Read Post

U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies

Levi Novey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: US Military, Aircraft, Military, Department of Defense, Hummingbird, Spies, Birds, Spying, Technology, Robots, Robot, Green News
Levi Novey

Robotic hummingbirds will be able to discretely enter areas where people would not be able to go without being detected and will look so realistic that people could easily be fooled.

Read Post

In Dependence Day 2009

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, American Revolution, US Military, Congress, Social Security, America, Economy, Cheney, George W. Bush, President Obama, Redistribution of Wealth, Obama, Democratic Party, Bush Tax Cuts, Dick Cheney, Deficit, Military, Wealth, Tax Cuts, Enlistment Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Republican Party, Taxes, Credit Crisis, Entitlement, Democrats, Fourth of July, Barack Obama, Iraq War, John Ensign, Federal Budget Deficit, Independence Day, Sarah Palin, Military Recruiting, Iraq, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.

Read Post