David Axe is headed back to Africa, and needs funds. This time, he'll be covering USS Nashville's "soft power" deployment. I've broadcast several of his appeals, as well as appeals from several other journalists, for a reason; with the collapse of funding from so many institutional sources of suppor...

Several people allegedly planning to detonate homemade bombs during Bahrain’s national celebrations have been arrested, security officials say. According to media reports from the Gulf state, the attacks were planned to take place on the anniversary of the king’s coronation. It is not cl...

Would you be willing to train hard just so you could live through a Navy Seal inspired leadership training bootcamp?  (Authors note:  If you train all the time you'd be ready on a moments notice) This program is about $5500 and pushes the attendees beyond the brink of exhaustion. “You’re beyon...

Last week's NYT article on the difficulties with the Littoral Combat Ship is quite fantastic. The LCS project publicly began in November 2001, but the ship is a natural outgrowth of shifts in USN doctrine in the 1990s. Contrary to the general belief that the Navy continues to prepare to defeat the I...

SecDef Gates at the Air Force Air University: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the Air Force is not doing enough to help in the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort, complaining that some military leaders are "stuck in old ways of doing business." Gates said in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Bas...

Last August I wrote: It's unclear whether the Indians will keep Viraat around for another three years or accept a carrier deployment gap. It's kind of interesting to me that, in spite of our newfound tight friendship with the Indians, I haven't heard a peep about selling India one of the six superca...