2015-06-17 The DCI Group is a French-based training and services organization which supports the French military and global partners worldwide. Their focus on training is highlighted in their interview of Murielle Delaporte, co-founder of Second Line of Defense and editor of OPERATIONNELS, a French defense magazine which focuses on operations,…
2015-06-18 According to a story in The Daily Mail, Russian air activity around the Baltic area has been stepped up. RAF Typhoons which are part of NATO's Baltic air patrol mission intercepted the aircraft. British warplanes scrambled to intercept nine Russian aircraft within hours after they flew menacingly close to…
2015-06-14By Murielle Delaporte After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1986, Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen served for six years mainly on minesweepers and minehunters. This included a deployment for clearing sea mines in the Persian Gulf in 1991 as executive officer on HNLMS Haarlem. In 1996 Commander Bergen Henegouwen…
2015-06-17 By Richard Weitz President Vladimir Putin’s boasting today that Russia will deploy 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year is another reminder of why it would be dangerous to de-alert more of the US nuclear force. It is not because the Russian nuclear arsenal is poised to pounce on…
2015-06-16 By Lance Cpl. Fatmeh Saad MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. - Spirits ran high aboard the Karel Doorman, a warship with the Royal Netherlands Navy, as U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 made the first MV-22 Osprey landing aboard a Dutch ship during an interoperability test…
06/15/2015: The Arctic challenge exercise is now completed as of June 5 2015. According to the SCAN Post: Arctic Challenge Exercise 2015 (ACE 2015), one of Europe’s largest fighter jet exercises in the Nordic countries with more than 4000 persons participating started on May 25. Lead nation this time is Norway as…
2015-06-12 By Gulshan Luthra and Cmde Ranjit Rai (Retd) Singapore. The sea is a dangerous place, getting miniaturized due to the ever-growing number of naval and merchant vessels, factors that mandate internationally cooperative efforts to maintain the peace and stability of the established Sea Lines of Communications (SLOC) as well…
2015-06-15 Introduction by Ed Timperlake There is a often used phrase in media-"If it Bleeds it Leads" sadly this can easily distort the real truth. Fortunately one of the most distinguished group of experts ever assembled reviewed the combat engagements by Israel in defending all their citizens against an onslaught…
