2017-01-08 By Robbin Laird As Mark Lewis, the former Chief Scientist of the USAF, has warned repeatedly, high speed weapons, notably hypersonic ones, are on the way and will be part of the evolving threat environment. As he wrote in 2010: Aerospace engineering is ultimately about pushing the boundaries, and…
2017-01-05 By Paul Bracken, Yale University The most interesting thing about the second nuclear age is that it actually came about. It wasn’t supposed to happen, at least according to most political science theory. What was supposed to happen after the cold war was a reinvigorated global nuclear nonproliferation regime,…
This is the first of a three part series by Danny Lam on the way ahead for the "One China Policy. 2017-01-15 By Danny Lam President Xi Jinping of People’s Republic of China will be promoting “free trade” at Davos later this month. If it is the case that Chinese…
2017-01-15 According to a story published on the UK MoD website on January 11, 2107, Typhoons from RAF Coningsby will be based in Romania for three months in summer 2017. This is part of the upcoming UK contributions to NATO. UK forces have taken command of NATO’s Response Force’s Land Component…
2017-01-15 In a story published on the UK Ministry of Defence website on January 20. 2017, the UK Minister of Defence recently highlighted the evolution of the UK’s defence network. At a meeting with British Defence Attachés, hosted in London, Sir Michael called on the UK’s military diplomats to take…
2017-01-14 ŠIAULIAI, Lithuania On 5 January 2017, NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission entered its 43rd rotation since its beginning in 2004. After four months of leading the mission, France handed over the symbolic key to the Baltic Airspace to the Netherlands at the traditional ceremony held at Šiauliai Air Base. The…
2017-01-07 By Robbin Laird A simple news release highlights the evolving USN-USMC combat team as a key step forward in shaping the combat infrastructure for the sea base which can support evolving capabilities for the assault force. According to a press release from the USMC dated January 6, 2017: The…
2017-01-14 NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN – Marine Corps F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, transit the Pacific from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 9, 2017, with its final destination of Iwakuni, Japan. VMFA-121 is the first operational F-35B…
