2015-11-23 By Kenneth Maxwell Last week, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, released a digital text of a newly discovered poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in London anonymously in 1811. Shelley was 18 years old at the time. The poem was long lost. It has now been made public for the first time in…
2015-11-24 Our strategic partner, defenceWeb, which is based in South Africa, recently, published three very good articles on the evolution of electronic warfare. We are reprinting them here with their permission to provide an overview of the dynamics of change associated with electronic or tron warfare. Electronic Warfare Offers Advantages…
2015-11-24 For the Russians, the Arctic is a key region shaping their global position in the 21st century. We noted in an article published on 6/5/14, that the Russians have a proactive policy in the Arctic as opposed to the U.S. policy of reluctance or benign neglect. In its new…
2015-11-23 By Richard Weitz Second Line of Defense had the opportunity to attend this year’s 12th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, where more than one hundred foreign and Russian participants heard President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials and various international experts discussed recent international developments.…
2015-11-21 By In Omnibus Caritas The horrific scenes from Paris, coupled with the European Union’s border policies, have led many of our elected officials (and hopefuls) to call for a cessation or “pause” in our national relief efforts to re-locate Syrian and Iraqi refugees. This call is predicated on the…
2015-11-20 By defenceWeb Boko Haram and Islamic State (IS) were jointly responsible for 51% of all claimed global terror fatalities in 2014, with Boko Haram taking over IS as the world’s deadliest terror group with 7 500 deaths last year. This is according to a new report indicating terrorism is at…
2015-11-12 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake In late October 2015, we had a chance to sit down and talk with key members of the Air Combat Command (ACC) staff about the evolution of the air combat force and the way ahead under the influence of new technologies coming into…
2015-11-19 By Louis P. Bergeron In the coming decades, the Bering Strait will emerge as a key global maritime choke point due to its strategic location. The strait will link the dynamic Pacific Ocean economies with the economies in the North Atlantic Ocean using the increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean as…
