Paul Bracken Assesses the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture Review

02/10/2018
2018-02-08 By Paul Bracken The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a thoughtful, deliberative report that captures the big strategic issues facing the United States in the area of nuclear force structure.[1] This is surprising and welcome in my view. The previous two NPRs, in 2002 and 2010 respectively, were ideological tracts with…

UK Chief of Defence Staff Visits Australia

02/10/2018
2018-02-10  The UK Chief of Defence Staff has reinforced a commitment to stronger defence ties with Australia after a series of meetings with senior Australian officials. According to an article on the UK Ministry of Defence website published February 7, 2018: During a visit to the country, Sir Stuart Peach…

UK Enhances Air Mobility: Opens New A400M Hangar

02/10/2018
2018-02-10 Recently, the UK Minister of Defence procurement officially opened a new Atlas hangar which is large enough to contain three of the RAF’s new Atlas transport aircraft at the same time. The hangar is part of a significant infrastructure build by the UK Ministry of Defence to support new…

The Intelligence Community in the Golden Age of Open Source Intelligence

02/09/2018
2018-02-04 By Danny Lam Competition between public and controlled information is as old as life. From the beginning of time, there were information hoarder / controllers and disseminators / distributors.   Information science tells us that 99% of information is public and only a tiny portion is significantly restricted. The explosion…

General Goldfein Visits India and Underscores Importance of the Relationship with India

02/09/2018
2018-02-09 New Delhi, February 6, 2018: The US Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David L. Goldfein departed New Delhi Sunday following meetings with US Embassy leadership as well as Republic of India military leadership to discuss strengthening the strategic military-to-military partnership with India. On Wednesday, Gen. Goldfein met with…

France Acquires C-130Js as Part of a New Franco-German Squadron

02/08/2018
1/31/18: In a deal made prior to President Maron becoming President, France and Germany agreed to join forces and share costs of the new squadron. There will be 4 C130Js on the French side to be acquired by 2019 and 6 on the German side after the Bundestag’s expected green…

Manufacturing the CH-53K: The Development Process is Not Just for the Air System

02/08/2018
2018-01-30 By Robbin Laird For 21st century digital military systems, the development process is both about how you build the evolving aircraft as well as testing the product and evolving the lessons learned into the evolving production process. It is an open-ended learning process. And one, which will characterize the…