2013-05-03 As Singapore gets closer to announcing its F-35B downselect decision, it is important to underscore the key role, which Italy has played in the program and in building a carrier on which the airplane will operate. As the F-35 “club” expands, significant effects will come from the ability to work…
2013-05-03 by Richard Weitz The Navy’s Aegis-SM3 ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has become the main U.S. shield against missile attacks. It encompasses the Aegis Weapon System, the Standard Missile, and the Navy and Joint Forces Command, Control and Communication systems. In terms of regional defense, Aegis BMD can defeat…
2013-05-03 Last year, Second Line of Defense covered Bold Alligator 2012 from many angles: the French, coalition partners, the USMC, the Expeditionary Strike Group, etc. The final report we produced has been downloaded by many of our readers. https://sldinfo.com/special-report-bold-alligator-2012-and-the-future-of-the-expeditionary-strike-group/ This year’s exercise is a synthetic exercise, meaning that real world…
2013-05-01 by Richard Weitz The significance of the ethnicity of the two Boston Marathon bombers is still unclear, as is the reasons for their transformation into Islamist terrorists, but the North Caucasus has been a hotbed of radicalism and militarism for at least a century. Although the Tsarnaev brothers may…
2013-04-28 We asked George Talbot of the Mobile Register to expand upon his interview published at the time of the groundbreaking for the A320 facility in Mobile, Alabama. The early piece was Mobile-specific; this piece speaks to a broader set of issues and we thank George for providing us with…
2013-04-28 By Robbin Laird The great thing about history is we know the outcome. Or I could put that more correctly, we think we know the outcome and we can debate how we got there or we can debate what it means, or whether history is prologue. With regard to…
2013-04-27 by Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We have written frequently about the F-35 and its coming role as a fleet. The plane was designed from the ground up to operate in multiple plane formations and to share data across the formation as well as with the joint and coalition…
2013-04-25 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Recently, Second Line of Defense’s Murielle Delaporte spent time with the French forces in Mali. Embedded with the forces she was able to observe the transition of those forces within Mali. Soon, Delaporte will be reporting on her look at the transition and…
