Battleland – U.S.

[...] civilian spouses, according to the same report. And surveys show that this weighs heavily on military families. According to the 2013 Military Family Lifestyle Survey by Blue Star Families—an [...]

[...] , nonpartisan research center, has issued a report on the risks facing young children in military families. “Repeated and lengthy deployments can be particularly problematic for children’ [...]

[...] ; and Amy McCullough, of Air Force Magazine – The fire is still taking its toll on military families, as the lost records were quite literally one of a kind and irreplaceable — have [...]

[...] to graduating high school. The summer months are peak moving season for our nation’s military families. Nearly a third of the 600,000 annual shipments of household goods take place during that [...]

[...] . Outsourcing Wars: Comparing Risk, Benefits and Motivation of Contractors and Military Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan (2009–2011) compared risk, insurance benefits, and [...]

[...] reconstruction operations does not work. The experience over the past decade of many of our military personnel and civilians, hundreds of whom lost their lives while involved in reconstruction work in [...]

[...] classrooms: ·      Honor the purpose and commitment of military personnel. ·      Allow students time with a parent leaving or [...]

[...] he pays lip service to the notion. For example, here’s the President in the 2010 National Security Strategy of the United States: Our strategy starts by recognizing that our strength and [...]

[...] , told ABC that Snowden has done “irreversible and significant damage” to U.S. national security. In an interview published Monday, Snowden said he sought a job three months ago with Booz [...]

[...] Waging and preventing war are the foundations of national security. Innovative companies across the country are working on products for tomorrow’s fight. [...]

[...] Waging and preventing war are the foundations of national security. Innovative companies across the country are working on products for tomorrow’s fight. [...]

[...] by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and its widely dreaded “sequestration” — Pentagon spending would be hundreds of billions of dollars above what we spent, on average, during the Cold [...]

[...] of Management and Budget puts the current defense-budget debate — and assertions that Pentagon spending is shrinking to “dangerously low” levels — in a rarely-seen, albeit more [...]

[...] here Monday), it is important to find an independent, objective yardstick to measure Pentagon spending trends accurately. Unfortunately, there isn’t one. If there were, this debate would be [...]

[...] one of two.  The Pentagon’s budget has increased, over time, much more than the Defense Department tells Congress, and the public. The vast majority of people in Washington who consider [...]

[...] You Think: part two of two Given the warped measures that high-spending advocates and the Defense Department use to calibrate past, present and future defense spending (described here Monday), it is [...]

[...] of the 600,000 annual shipments of household goods take place during that timeframe. The Defense Department may be handling personal property, but military children have to handle their own emotional [...]