Battlefields Project

A military organization that dates back thousands of years is antiquated in 2023 and should be re-assessed, says a 38-year vet.

Commentary  Concussions suck. There’s no getting around that. Way back in the 20th century, in my young adulthood, ...

Commentary I’ve discovered writing to be a tremendous tool to analyze my mental health status because I’m forced ...

Commentary I write this today, not as an individual, but as a veteran of the wars of Afghanistan ...

Commentary What I’m about to say applies to any VIP, including civilians, and some of it will be ...

Commentary So, what does “education” for a warfighter look like? In today’s military, many lament the tremendous amounts ...

Commentary Once upon a time, there was an Air Force general in the Pentagon who was in charge ...

Commentary This post popped up on my feed today on a business networking site where a mom was ...

Commentary Engineers, especially civil engineers, build things. It’s what we do, and we consider each project, large or ...

Commentary Just about everyone in the military is familiar with the sheep, wolves, and sheepdog analogy, as popularized ...

Commentary I've mentioned before that I really enjoy observing human behavior and one of my favorite scenarios is ...

Commentary For the most part, the huddled masses know nothing of the concept of gallows humor, and yet ...

Commentary So I’m not going to try to defend the accusation that the U.S. Air Force (AF) is ...

Commentary Sometimes heroes show up when you least expect them, and this is about one of those times. ...

Commentary One of my favorite movies is "Twelve O'Clock High," starring Gregory Peck, who, along with Jimmy Stewart, ...

Commentary The Air Force says it wants to have resilient troops. Mostly, this is in reaction to the ...

Commentary After coming home from Iraq in 2009, I spent the next 8 years in what I call ...

Taken from the Air National Guard Yellow Ribbon webpage: “The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 established the ...

Commentary Editor’s Note: February of 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s now-infamous speech to ...

Commentary “You are not a mother, you are a soldier!” I will never forget those words. That was ...

Commentary In January 2003 we were deployed to Incirlik AB Turkey in support of Operation Northern Watch. Most ...

Commentary I’ve read accounts where amputees will feel sensations where their missing limbs used to be. One of ...

Commentary It has been known for over 80 years that following a head injury there is dysfunction in ...

Commentary We’ve all had those conversations where someone tells the story about how they were somewhere weird and ...

Commentary "Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping." — Harri Holkeri Internal armed ...

Commentary This article was spurred by a LinkedIn post I once read by Michelle "Mace" Curran, a former ...

Commentary My squad drives along MSR (main supply route) Dover, en-route to Camp Anaconda. I stand in the ...