2016-11-24 By Richard Weitz During the election campaign, some of Donald Trump’s advisers criticized the Obama administration and its predecessors for adopting policies that alienated Russia and helped drive Moscow toward Beijing, to China’s benefit. They indicated that one reason they wanted to reconcile with Russia was to break this…
11/23/2016: “F-35B's are changing the way we fight. With over 21,500 flight hours logged, they are the most versatile and technologically advanced aircraft in the skies today.” This week, the USS America (LHA 6) hosted the largest number of F-35 Lightning II's ever in the Lightning Carrier Proof of Concept Demonstration,…
11/23/2016: Twelve F-35B Lightning II's embarked on USS America (LHA 6) November 19, 2016. The demonstration is the first shipboard Marine Corps F-35B integration demonstration alongside other Marine Corps Air Combat Element assets. With over 22,500 flight hours logged, the F-35B is the most versatile aircraft in the skies today.…
2016-11-23 By Danny Lam Americans have a long history of not seeing the trees for the forest when it comes to East Asia. During the Korean war, UN forces were amazed by the human wave assaults by Chinese troops and implicitly presumed that the PRC had endless reserves of manpower…
2016-11-23 By Danny Lam The South China Sea “Sea Grab” is no less an egregious violation of international law than a “Land Grab” by Russia in the Ukraine. Both cases are virtually identical in that a treaty defined international boundary or limitation was violated. Though in the SCS case, it…
2016-11-17 By Robbin Laird Secretary Wynne recently visited, the Final Assembly and Check Out Facility, which has been built at Cameri Air Base near Milan. When he last dealt with the FACO it was the germ of an idea in working through how best to involve Italy in the F-35…
2016-11-22 According to a news item on the RAF website published on November 8, 2016, between 4 and 10 November 2016, the Republic of Korea (ROK) Air Force hosted "Invincible Shield," the first ever combined air exercise with the US and the UK. Four Eurofighter Typhoons from Royal Air Force…
2016-11-22 By Richard Weitz The Russian speakers at Valdai differed on the impact of the Western sanctions applied against Russia’s energy, defense and banking sectors in response to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and its support for the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Since 2014, the United States…
