This has been one of the busiest periods that I've been in for quite some time now, hence the lack of blogging as actively as I'd li...

It was thirty years ago this week that President Ronald Reagan gave a historic speech proposing, for the first time, a space-based anti-ba...

The "bar code" at Walker Field, Maryland Adjacent to the runway of a Navy airfield in Maryland is a paved rectangle.  And with...

There is a Mellow Mushroom that opened up not long ago in nearby Burlington. I've yet to eat at that one but now I'm feeling led t...

Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma has been digging into the details of the federal budget. Among the things our government is spending our ...

Warhammer 40,000 Sixth Edition came out over two months ago and I still haven't gotten to play with the new rules! Just been busy on ...

Look CNN... Those are not eight "troops" that have been killed in Afghanistan. A "troop" is a GROUP of soldiers. You do...

...at the behest of President Obama, the armed forces of the United States have officially ended the "don't ask, don't tell...

            In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow       Between the crosses, row on row,    That mark our place; and i...

This is part of the PowerPoint presentation that was shown to General Stanley McChrystal and other United States military officers leading o...

Awright, let's be clear about something: the navigator was not listening to his iPod while at his station . But he was in his cabin li...

Those mad scientists at DARPA (who previously brought us such curiosities as the Internet) are now actively engaged in research to produce s...

It was sixty-eight years ago today that Pearl Harbor in Hawaii came under attack from the military forces of the Empire of Japan, propelling...

Call it what you may, a law of either history or human nature. Anything can be used as a weapon... and that a thing intended as a weapon w...

According to a story at The New York Times , the United States military is about to offer American citizenship to legal immigrants if they e...

Is there anything more pathetic than a person scrambling against time in a vain effort to ensure that history will be kind to him or her? Pe...

Couple of items that I found in the news today, that juxtaposed together make for a rather disturbing scenario... First, the Pentagon wants ...

And now the dirty secret of whatever success "the Surge" had rears its ugly head... Military.com is reporting that ex-rebels in Ir...

Robert Ballard has come forward with something very interesting: his successful 1985 search for the Titanic was only a cover story for a mi...

How in the world does a sheriff's department in a mostly-rural west Texas county justify having in its possession an armored personnel c...