Secretary of the Army Pete Geren today testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that injured soldiers have "experienced poor facilities, leadership challenges, and an entrenched bureaucracy" when seeking medical care. "However, the improvements we will discuss today go well beyond addressing the shortcomings" that were highly publicized in the wake of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center treatment scandal last year, he added. more >>

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When candor can be a career killer. more >>

The Iraq war boss, Army Gen. David Petraeus, wants to be NATO commander but would take Pacific Command as a second choice, we learn. more >>

An anthropologist challenges conventional thinking more >>

The Pentagon deploys social scientists to help understand Iraq's 'human terrain' more >>

The MRAP Protects Troops in Iraq From Roadside Bombs more >>

Baghdad has taken a toll on the U.S. Army's 'Blue Spaders' more >>

Peru was shaken to its core last night when a 7.9-magnitude earthquake rattled the country and left at least 337 dead and more than 800 injured. The quake hit Peru's coast, and people were primarily killed in the Ica region, which lies south of the country's capital, Lima. More than 200 were killed when a church collapsed in the town of Pisco as they were attending religious services. The quake struck at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, and four aftershocks followed. It caused the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue warnings for South American coastlines and placed an advisory for as far away as Hawaii. more >>

—Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune more >>

Suicide attacks dominate the headlines, but here's one that didn't happen. A U. more >>

Business leaders love to emulate battlefield commanders as they deploy their troops and make critical decisions. That's why otherwise-arcane military books like The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Carl von Clausewitz remain brisk sellers: They're considered obligatory titles on the bookshelf of any executive with a taste for corporate battle. more >>