2015-04-11 By Robbin Laird and Murielle Delaporte The arrival of the Indian Prime Minister has come at an interesting juncture in history. History is on the move with significant upheaval in the geopolitical landscape, ranging from Putin’s mapmaking, Chinese pushing out in Asia, the ISIS crisis, as well as the clear…
2015-04-10 By Air Marshal Jimmy Bhatia (Retd.) and Guishan Luthra New Delhi. The Indian Air Force (IAF) will acquire 36 Rafale combat aircraft in flyaway condition from France, double the originally stipulated number of 18 in the 2007 tender for a total of 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA).…
04/08/2015:A C-5M Super Galaxy aircrew from Travis Air Force Base claimed 45 aeronautical records in one flight, positioning the U.S. military’s largest airframe as the world’s top aviation record holder with a total of 86 world records. The flight from Travis AFB established standards in 45 previously unset categories. The…
2015-04-04 By Richard Weitz The Russia-Ukraine war has highlighted the security dilemmas of Eurasian countries that find themselves outside of any regional military alliance. Although recent attention has focused on Ukraine, the Caspian littoral countries have, for several years, considered themselves vulnerable to renewed Russian assertiveness and have complained about…
2015-04-06 By Kenneth Maxwell It remains a very odd phenomenon. Brazil seems wedded to a very bad habit of navel gazing. It is as if the rest of the world did not matter much. It is as if all of Brazil's problems were self-created or at the very least that they are the exclusive concern…
2015-03-25 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Late March 2015, we interviewed Secretary Wynne with regard to the evolution of coalition airpower over the period ahead. Earlier, Wynne laid out a wide-ranging perspective on the evolution of airpower in his article entitled: “Airpower in the Next Two Decades of the…
2015-04-04 Recently, the second Future Force Conference was held in the Netherlands. From March 23-25 2015, the Future Force Conference was held to look at the challenge and opportunities offered by technologies to allied or enemy forces. http://www.ffc2015.com/ [caption id="attachment_76277" align="alignnone" width="240"] Dutch Chief of Staff General Middendorp. Credit: Dutch…
2015-04-04 By Gulshan Luthra According to Admiral Harry Harris Jr., Commander of the US Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), the US Navy has a Congressional mandate to keep 11 aircraft carriers, and six of these should be in the two oceans along with some 200 ships by 2020. The first of the…
