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…
2015-11-19 By Amatzia Baram “IS” cannot be defeated as long as it controls territory that can produce large revenue and serve as base for operations. “IS” has the Iraqi-Syrian desert that is providing them with some $1.5m per day worth of oil, in addition to ransom, an endless supply of…
2015-11-16 By Ed Timperlake In a fight against ISIS, a non-state force with the resources of a state, air strikes and insertion of forces can not only lead to the destruction of forces in being but infrastructure supporting those forces. What you do not want to have are forces which…
2015-11-17 President Hollande has responded decisively against ISIS. "France is at war." “The acts committed Friday night in Paris at the Stade de France are acts of war. "We must respond with cold determination to the attack that our country was a target of." [caption id="attachment_82235" align="alignnone" width="300"] VERSAILLES, FRANCE…
