JBLM has problems, but it’s hardly ‘on the brink’ of disaster
This editorial will appear in Thursday’s print edition. Is Joint Base Lewis-McChord “on the brink,” as claimed in a Los Angeles Times article and headline Monday? (The brink of what is never spelled...
View ArticleState stands to weather storm of defense cutbacks
This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s print edition. The Obama administration’s plan to trim the defense budget by $487 billion over the next decade – about 8 percent – has some critics saying it...
View ArticleDeadly rampage turns up the heat on U.S. mission
This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s print edition. There’s a lot we don’t know yet about the tragic shooting rampage in Afghanistan on Sunday, allegedly by a lone Stryker soldier from Joint Base...
View ArticleAfter 10 years of war, the Army looks due for relief
This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s print edition. Individual soldiers have their breaking points. So do armies. We don’t know the story behind a staff sergeant’s alleged massacre of Afghan...
View ArticleMassacre excuses: Guilt by association for U.S. troops
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. Too many cheap explanations are being tossed around for the March 11 massacre of what appears to be 17 innocent villagers in Afghanistan. As a...
View ArticlePentagon must overcome bureaucracy on PTSD diagnoses
This editorial will appear in Sunday’s print edition. It’s welcome news that the Department of Defense is expanding its review of post-traumatic stress syndrome diagnoses. That review will now date...
View ArticleHelping lawmakers get re-elected isn’t Army’s mission
This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s print edition. Many members of Congress stumping for re-election back in their districts decry government spending and those awful earmarks. Except (wink, wink)...
View ArticleArmy shouldn’t close ranks around Madigan inquiry
This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s print edition. It’s hard to beat the U.S. Army when it comes to giving the bureaucratic run-around. The Army has been blocking News Tribune staffers who have...
View ArticleUncle Sam wants – your cat?
Dogs get all the glory – until now. A report on the U.S. Army home page says a new program plans to enlist cats to do their doody, uh, duty for their country. They would work alongside military police....
View ArticleLife spared, Bales owes the world an explanation
This editorial will appear in Friday’s print edition. ‘I intended to kill them.” That’s all he has to say? Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to massacring 16 Afghan villagers last...
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