2015-11-27 Readers of Second Line of Defense were not surprised by the Turkish shootdown of the Russian aircraft. Hardly, an unpredictable event, the shootdown is a function of the evolving situation and Turkish objectives. With regard to context, Professor Amatzia Baram highlighted two important data points going into this phase of developments…
2015-11-25 Europe is in the throes of fundamental transformation. Certainly, this is not the top down transformation experienced in the 1990s. This is crisis engendered transformation, where what is not done is as important as what is done in the reshaping of Europe. The Eurozone crisis raises fundamental questions about…
2015-11-25 By Gulshan Luthra Dateline New Delhi. Construction of the first lot of six VH 92 Super Hawk helicopters for the U.S. President has made its beginnings in India. The new generation presidential helicopter is based on the Sikorsky S-92 model, whose cabin, some other parts and wire harnesses are…
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…
