2015-06-09 By Robbin Laird On May 26, 2015, when journalists visited the USS Wasp to engage with the ship’s crew and personnel involved in operational testing, a panel was held at the end of the visit with several Marine Corps and Navy participants in OT-1. The material presented provided a…
2015-06-08 By Dr. Les Nunn In his article entitled “Re-Norming the Asymmetric Advantage in Air Dominance: ‘Going to War With the Air Force You Have,’” former Secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Michael W. Wynne, concluded his paper with “This march towards the future must begin in our imagination…
2015-06-09 By Richard Weitz In its just released report on foreign governments’ Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, Non-proliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, the U.S. State Department highlighted that the Russians are violating the INF treaty. "The United States determined the cruise missile developed by the Russian Federation…
2015-06-04 By Robbin Laird The Italian government promised to deliver a white paper on defense and they have done so in April 2015. More than a decade has elapsed since the last one, and it has been a decade of rapid change. Italy is in the cross hairs in many…
2015-06-06 According to a piece published on 6/5/15 by the DVIDS, and released by the USMC, Major Greenberg, who was aboard the Wasp during the OT, provides an update. ATLANTIC OCEAN - The Marine Corps F-35B operational test (OT-1) successfully concluded aboard a U.S. Navy amphibious ship, USS Wasp (LHD-1),…
2015-06-03 By Robbin Laird As published by our partner India Strategic http://www.indiastrategic.in/topstories3766_A_Tale_of_Three_Carriers.htm Newport News, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Rosyth Scotland. In the famous opening lines of Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities, he noted that “it was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” So it is for…
2015-06-06 By Captain (Dr) Gurpreet S Khurana New Delhi. In comparison to the Defence White Papers published by China in the preceding years, the 2014 document is very concise. Nonetheless, it reveals substantial content and context, disproportionate to the size of its text. While much of the revelation is likely…
2015-06-06 On June 4, 2015, Defence Minister Pinotti testified before the joint Italian House and Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees with regard to the recently released White Paper. According to a piece published on the Italian MoD website on June 4th: The White Paper is a concrete initiative of…
