During World War II, the United States relied heavily on air support for military operations around the world. These operations included not only overseas fighting missions, but also domestic operations like ferrying planes from factories to bases, testing new planes, training other pilots, moving cargo around the nation, and towing targets for ground anti-aircraft fire […]
Breach of Trust
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Reviewed by Rachel Maddow in the New York Times. What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, […]
The Many Battle Fronts of the War on Women, and The War on Women of the Front
The war on women is real and it is being waged on many fronts. The Invisible War is a documentary exposing the systemic coverup of the rape of U.S. military women by U.S. service members. There is something very, very wrong with our military. I suspect it is related to being “all volunteer” when it […]