By Richard Weitz 02/07/2011 - Perhaps the main tool of influence available to the United States in the current crisis in Egypt is the decades-long relationship that Washington has cultivated with that country’s military and intelligence services. The recent experience reminds us that military-to-military relationships have important diplomatic and security…
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake 02/06/2011 - Notably absent from any Western commentary about the Tunisian and Egyptian “awakenings” is Iraq. Yet Baghdad is only 806 miles or 1297 kms from Cairo. And the American and UK intervention in Iraq has created a new political reality and dynamic. Regardless…
By General Gaviard 01/28/2011 - Transformation based on networks is now real. Slogans are far, and concrete achievements in this field are increasing throughout the industrial and technological base of French defense. (...) Regarding operations, we must concentrate on four major topics: writing the concept of operations ; the touchy…
By Richard McCormack 01/28/2011 - China’s steady rise as a telecommunications manufacturing and research powerhouse has “profound” national security and economic ramifications for the United States, according to the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
By Robbin Laird 01/26/2011 - During the first quarter of 2011, we intend to publish our second book in our air power series. The first was entitled The Three Dimensional Warrior and laid out the USMC approach to operations within which air power is the critical cement.
An Interview with Marty Jenkins 01/26/2011 - "If you were to choose a better name, what would it be? It might be the joint network system. The program isn't providing that end user device, that handheld or that desktop. It's providing the entire infrastructure that enables that."
By Ed Timperlake 01/26/2011 - Now the appropriate media fight is raging in America over the symbolism of Lang Lang playing the song from “Battle on Shanggonling Mountain" (or Triangle Hill). It was rude no matter what the spin or nuance positions taken by individuals schooled in “Diplo Speak” --…
By Vince Wade 01/19/2011 - When Sprint recently decided to scrap plans to buy next-generation cellular network technology from China's Huawei and ZTE -- two major players in the global telecommunications business -- it did so primarily because the agreement was strongly opposed by the Pentagon.
