By Robbin Laird 03/05/2011 - The Libyan crisis is occurring in a period of challenges to the USAF and USN’s ability to deliver capabilities useful to the President. Part of the problem is the significant commitment of dwindling assets for use in the region. Even though there are elements of…
By Ed Timperlake 03/05/2011 - The current Navy/Marine team - leaving Crete to go up close to the Libyan coast ready to execute what ever is directed by the National Command authority -- will only get better in the future. The entire effort by those Marine warriors in cubicles at…
An airborne pilot is up close and personal with both sensors and combat teeth and is not fighting the battle from a computer consul half a world away.
This is the first of three parts of Dr. Lewis's look at hypersonics.
"When you look ahead to what the Coast Guard needs to do its missions in evolving Arctic conditions, you see that there's more open water, there's more human activity, and there's more maritime traffic. But the ice is still there, and its movements are becoming more unpredictable. You really need…
High energy lasers offer a number of properties that make them particularly attractive for meeting the emerging high-intensity, combined threat of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, remotely piloted aircraft, glide bombs, rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM).
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…
The Air Force as well as the rest of the Armed Forces and the rest of the United States government faces an unusual crisis in budgeting. All are scrambling about trying to determine the least-bad parts of the budget to trim, or, in worst case, cut. Clearly this needs radical…
