First UK-Japanese Foreign and Defense Ministers Meeting, January 2015

03/07/2015
2015-03-07  The US and Japan are reworking their defense relationship. Australia and Japan are reworking their defense relationship. Now the UK and Japan are building one. The first UK-Japanese foreign and defense ministerial meetings were held in January 2015 in Tokyo. According to a story on the UK government website…

Building the Prince of Wales Aircraft Carrier: The UK Shapes a Second Large Deck Carrier for the UK Defense Forces

03/06/2015
2015-03-06  The Royal Navy is building two large deck aircraft carriers. This ship and the USS America are two ships built specifically with the F-35B in mind. The Queen Elizabeth will have its sea trials next year, and construction is moving apace on the Prince of Wales. According to a…

The A400M Arrrives in Polynesia

03/06/2015
2015-03-06 On March 2, 2015, the A400M Atlas touched down in French Polynesia. Currently, the French forces use two CN-235s to provide the means to link up with the five Polynesian archipelagos. There is a French Air Force detachment of 190 at Tahiti's Faa'a airfield. The flight from New Caledonia…

Preparing the U.S. Navy for 21st Century Warfare: The U.S. Naval Academy Trains Midshipman for Cyber Operations

03/04/2015
2015-02-23 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The Naval Academy Motto is; Ex Scientia Tridens –Through Knowledge Sea Power, and that captures the vision for a 21st century Cyber Operations Major being developed at the US Naval Academy. In preparing the U.S. Navy for 21st Century Warfare, the U.S. Naval…