http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/01/military-suicides/ Military Suicides Posted by Joe Klein Monday, March 1, 2010 at 11:52 am During the month of January, more soldiers committed suicide (24) than were killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan and Iraq combined (16). This is unusual, but–amazingly–not unique. In fact, the problem of military suicides is growing much worse, as Army Chief… Read more »
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Marine mammals will be casualty of Navy exercises
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=8549 Marine mammals will be casualty of Navy exercises Guest opinion by Carolyn Heitman Kodiak Daily Mirror Article published on Monday, March 1st, 2010 In November 2009 the Navy sent NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service an application and request for a Letter of Authorization and Permit to do Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Training Exercises using mid-frequency… Read more »
Much of Hawai’i’s stimulus funds helps stimulate military buildup
So, stimulus funds went to install key-less locks and repairing tennis courts at military bases? Studying windmills for Punchbowl? Why didn’t the state pay for teacher salaries, so the school furloughs could be averted? Hire crews to remove invasive species and restore forest and reef ecosystems? >><< Posted on: Monday, March 1, 2010 http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100301/NEWS01/3010358/Checking+Hawaii%E2%80%99s+stimulus+deals Checking… Read more »
The New Rules of War
In this article from Foreign Policy, John Arquilla, a military strategist who helped coin the concept of “netwar”, critiques the failure of the U.S. military to adapt to the changing social and technological conditions that shape conflicts around the world. He writes that in most cases, even when military commanders were open to the concept,… Read more »
New Hawaii Five-O movie will feature military back story
The Hawaii Five-O movie will be shot on O’ahu in March. One blog described the preparations for the shoot: The Five-0 pilot reportedly will include a large number of second unit filming and special effects, including land and water chases and a Striker Force vehicle (s?) that’s blown into the air where it spins around… Read more »
China’s ruling party comments on U.S. bases in Okinawa
Vincent Pollard, a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i forwarded this link to an article about the U.S. military bases in Okinawa that was published in the People’s Daily, an official news organ of the Communist Party of China. He noted how rare it is for the Communist Party of China to… Read more »
Buchanan: Liquidating the Empire
Coservative pundit and former presidential adviser Pat Buchanan calls for the liquidation of empire, beginning with the global network of U.S. military bases. >><< http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/02/22/liquidating-the-empire-2/ Liquidating the Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan, February 23, 2010 A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab, and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down…. Read more »
The “greening” of the military
The following article in the New York TImes showcases the military’s environmental preservation programs. The Pentagon is trying to polish its ‘green’ because of its terrible history of environmental destruction. The military has a program called “sustainable range intitiatives”, which interpret “sustainable” to mean sustaining their destructive activities, not exactly what most people think of… Read more »
Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways
The U.S. interest in Yemen may have more to do with establishing a military base in the Yemeni island of Socotra than hunting down Al Quaeda affiliates. >><< http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17460 Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways Securing US Control over Socotra Island and the Gulf of Aden By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, February 7, 2010… Read more »
Japanese factions differ on Futenma
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68111 Japanese factions still differ on Futenma By David Allen, Stars and Stripes GINOWAN, Okinawa — At odds over plans to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Okinawa’s northeast shore, the two minority parties of a special committee backed away from promises to submit their ideas for alternate locations at a meeting Wednesday evening…. Read more »
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