An Update on the Osprey from New River (IV) An Interview With Major Lee York 10/05 /2010 - In a wide-ranging interviews with Osprey pilots and maintainers at New River Air Station discussing their operational experience with the Osprey, one pilot highlighted with a single story the impact of the…
“Going to War with the Air Force You Have” By Michael W. Wynne 21st Secretary of the U.S. Air Force 10/29/2010 - One expects survival rates in that class to mimic the 8th Air Force in the Second World War, wherein the losses were so traumatic, they actually exceeded the…
“Re-norming” the Asymmetric Advantage in Air Dominance: “Going to War with the Air Force You Have” (Part Two) By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the U.S. Air Force 10/17/2010 What are the available platforms and technologies that we have invested in to date? And how can we shape effective…
A French View By General Jean-Patrick Gaviard 10/09/2010 - This article, released here with the permission of its author, has been published previously by DSI magazine. Credit photo: C2ISR/CAOC, Air Force Network Integration Center, USAF(www.afnic.af.mil) After initially describing the "classic" operation of air command and control centers (C2) of yesterday…
“Re-norming” the Asymmetric Advantage in Air Dominance: "Going to War with the Air Force You Have" (Part One) By Michael W. Wynne 21st Secretary of the U.S. Air Force 10/08/2010 - In this piece, Secretary Wynne identifies ways to leverage new technologies to “re-norm” air operations to assure U.S. and…
New River Update on the Osprey: Osprey Speed and Range Enables Change 10/08/2010 – In an SLD interview with Captain Dwyer, the Osprey pilot discussed his time with the MEU after leaving Haiti. The USS Nassau on which Captain Dwyer was deployed first went to Haiti (which will be discussed…
By Hon. Ed Timperlake 10/08/2010 - As the United States Marines go through one of the cyclic challenges to their mission, it is interesting to look at the Navy/Marine team’s recent performance of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Navy/Marines forces in the Indian Ocean (IO) projected power from the sea…
Light Attack Aircraft Can Alter the Course of a War By Ed Timperlake [caption id="attachment_11835" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Credit : Super Tucano Landing, Embraer, 2010"][/caption] September 24th, 2010 - The world has taken notice of an important and successful military attack in a nasty war raging in Colombia, South America. The…
