The Williams Foundation March 2018 Seminar: A Look at the Shift to Preparing to Fight and Prevail in High Intensity Warfare

02/12/2018
2018-02-09 The Williams Foundation will continue its series of examining the transformation of military forces by looking at the challenges of the shift from the land wars to higher tempo, high intensity operations. According to The Williams Foundation, the focus of the seminar is as follows: Most Air Force and senior…

Shaping a Way Ahead for Rapid Evolution of Air Combat Power and Its Impact On the Joint Command Authority

02/11/2018
2018-02-09 By Robbin Laird and Edward Timperlake Late last year, we published an interview with Secretary Wynne where he proposed an innovative way ahead on evolving air combat capability. https://sldinfo.com/redefining-the-next-generation-fighter-aircraft-build-out-air-combat-capability-by-shaping-a-21st-century-version-of-the-century-aircraft/ We want to revisit this discussion to highlight key elements of the proposal, which are important in and of themselves…

The German Heavy Lift Helicopter Competition: Rheinmetall Joins with Sikorsky on the CH-53K Offer

02/11/2018
2018-02-09 Sikorsky is ramping up its engagement to prepare its CH-53K offering to the German military. According to a February 6, 2018, press release fro Rheinmetall, they have signed a new teaming agreement with Sikorsky to support the bid to replace the CH-53 legacy heavy lift aircraft with the new…

Paul Bracken Assesses the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture Review

02/10/2018
2018-02-08 By Paul Bracken The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a thoughtful, deliberative report that captures the big strategic issues facing the United States in the area of nuclear force structure.[1] This is surprising and welcome in my view. The previous two NPRs, in 2002 and 2010 respectively, were ideological tracts with…

UK Chief of Defence Staff Visits Australia

02/10/2018
2018-02-10  The UK Chief of Defence Staff has reinforced a commitment to stronger defence ties with Australia after a series of meetings with senior Australian officials. According to an article on the UK Ministry of Defence website published February 7, 2018: During a visit to the country, Sir Stuart Peach…

UK Enhances Air Mobility: Opens New A400M Hangar

02/10/2018
2018-02-10 Recently, the UK Minister of Defence procurement officially opened a new Atlas hangar which is large enough to contain three of the RAF’s new Atlas transport aircraft at the same time. The hangar is part of a significant infrastructure build by the UK Ministry of Defence to support new…

The Intelligence Community in the Golden Age of Open Source Intelligence

02/09/2018
2018-02-04 By Danny Lam Competition between public and controlled information is as old as life. From the beginning of time, there were information hoarder / controllers and disseminators / distributors.   Information science tells us that 99% of information is public and only a tiny portion is significantly restricted. The explosion…