2013-02-06 By Lt. General (Retired) Gaviard With the advent of "network centric operations," it is becoming more and more difficult, to conceive the use of drones in an isolated fashion. On the contrary, the use of drone must be envisioned as fully transverse within an independent 'system of systems". Following this…
2013-02-06 by Bill Anderson Recently, my wife and I had the pleasure of attending the dedication of the US Freedom Pavilion at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. This new addition to the Museum…made possible by the generosity of The Boeing Company and other donors…displays some of…
2013-02-04 In a moving story posted on The Huntington Post, a reporter provides a moving story of a F-22 pilot helping a young man honor his father a fallen American solider. Zoe Mintz writes (excerpts follow): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/pilot-brian-baldwin-delivers-letter_n_2600241.html [caption id="attachment_50508" align="alignnone" width="199"] Son of Fallen Soldier With His Letter for Dad.…
2013-02-03 We have just posted a new Special Report on Pacific strategy. We published several pieces on AOL Defense which appeared over the past six months. We have brought those articles together into a single report for our readers. The report can be downloaded here: https://sldinfo.com/re-shaping-pacific-strategy/
2013-02-03 By Lt. General (Retired) Gaviard In a recent interview with the French weekly, L’Express, Lt. General (Retired) Gaviard discussed the progress of the French intervention to date. At this stage in the Serval operation, what are the reasons for the French armed forces success in Mali? The first phase of…
2013-02-03 By Dr. Harald Malmgren We speculated months ago that the UK government would not be able to yield authority over the London financial market to the proposed new bank and financial market supervisory entity to be established in the ECB or in a Continental European city. The continuing search…
2013-02-01 by Richard Weitz Although China’s foreign policy decision-making process remains highly centralized, over time the number of actors who influence these decisions has grown. The majority of China’s foreign policy decisions still lie in the hands of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee -- the most powerful decision-making body in…
2013-02-01 by Robbin Laird At Second Line of Defense, we have conducted a number of interviews with Commander’s with special roles in the Pacific. In this article, we want to bring together some of those insights into a more comprehensive look at the challenges as seen by the Commander’s who are…
