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After thousands of posts dating back more than two years, Battleland is calling it quits with this final item. As journalism has evolved, the time spent producing this blog doesn’t make the sen...

https://nation.time.com/2013/08/12/battleland-bows-out/

For those of us of a certain age, there was a certain poignancy watching the last of the nation’s World War I vets – those who went to Europe in 1917-1918 to fight in the “war to end all wa...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/26/the-last-of-the-doughboys/

TOKYO – Fresh off a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last week, conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced revisions to Japan’s five-year defense plan Friday that will… no...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/26/abe-calls-for-not-much-more-of-the-same/

I am the sponsor of a recently introduced bill, H.R. 2606, along with my colleague Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, calling for the establishment of a U.S. Office of Contingency Operations. Why ...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/26/getting-stability-and-reconstruction-ops-right-the-next-time/

Earlier this year, a Navy ship, the USS Guardian, grounded itself on the Philippine’s treasured Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park. Eventually, the vessel had to be cut apart and removed, piece by pi...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/26/reefer-madness/

When Dekiema Pogue learned that her husband, a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy, had been given orders for a change of station from their home in Norfolk, Va. to Jacksonville, Fla., he...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/26/supporting-military-spouses/

Earlier this year, the Pentagon lifted the ban on women serving in U.S. combat units – including elite special-operations units like the Navy’s SEALs – if they can clear the physical and me...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/25/the-cowardly-push-to-get-women-into-combat/

Which of these, technically speaking, is not a musical term: scherzo, staccato, sequestrationo? It’s a fair question, given the news Wednesday that the U.S. Marine Band is buying a Steinway gra...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/25/semper-fieramente-do-the-marines-need-a-90000-piano/

While Delta Force missions remain classified,  we do know that Delta Force members average in their mid-30s, have prior combat experience, and are selected  from the ranks of Special Forces, Ra...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/25/trying-out-for-delta-force/

Waging and preventing war are the foundations of national security. Innovative companies across the country are working on products for tomorrow’s fight. Here’s Battleland’s continuing look...

https://nation.time.com/2013/07/24/cheap-micro-sats/