Ready on Arrival: The USS Bush CBG and Iraq

06/22/2014
2014-06-22 By Ed Timperlake In 1966 the US Navy made a short movie about what was then called an “Attack Carrier.” The movie describes going to flight quarters and conducting combat air operations from an aircraft carrier off Vietnam. The political maneuvering by a President and Secretary of Defense who…

Shaping 21st Century Operational Capabilities: Enabling the Assault Force with Dynamic Situational Awareness

06/21/2014
2014-06-21 In a recent presentation at the Air Force Association, Col. Michael Orr, the CO of VMX-22, provided a look at how the USMC is shaping its combat cloud approach for the MAGTF. At the heart of the approach is working the following challenge: “We are working to push increased…

UN UAVs to Mali

06/20/2014
2014-06-20 by Oscar Nkala, Friday, 20 June 2014 The head of United Nations peace-keeping operations Herve Ladsous says the organization will soon deploy unarmed Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) surveillance drones to help the peacekeeping mission in Mali. Ladsous revealed the details of the surveillance program in a briefing to…

The Russian Mistral: Can the Russian European Strategy be Countered?

06/17/2014
2014-06-16 By Stephen Blank Bismarck famously observed that Europe as such represented merely a geographical notion, certainly not a unified political entity. The Western reaction to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea has again validated this acerbic insight. And amid the absence of any Western or European…