2014-06-13 The USS America is going to sea mid-July 2014. During a visit to the ship on June 12, 2014, Captain Hall, the CO of LHA-6, discussed the ship and its contribution. [caption id="attachment_66342" align="alignnone" width="207"] Leadership of LHA-6. Credit: Second Line of Defense[/caption] A key way to look at…
2014-06-13 by Robbin Laird As the Middle East moves further from an Arab Spring congenial to Western interests, the tinderbox returns. In the tinder box, one rarely gets to choose the folks one likes; one has to work with whomever one can to achieve one’s strategic interests. It is not…
2014-06-10 By Guy Martin Airbus Defence and Space is still hopeful South Africa will buy A400M strategic transport aircraft and is promoting it and the C295 light transport to the South African Air Force (SAAF). According to Antonio Rodriguez-Barberan, Vice President Commercial at Airbus Military, the company is “absolutely interested”…
2014-06-09 Our new strategic partner, the Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, published two pieces earlier this year addressing the question of the potential role of large unmanned aerial vehicles for Danish security and defense forces in the years ahead. The reports provided…
2014-06-08 It has taken time for the Osprey as a tiltrotar aircraft to change the way the USMC operates. Several years ago when interviewing an Osprey pilot about his initial experiences in Iraq, the officer cited an incident where the troops in the back did not want to get off…
2014-06-02 By Robbin Laird Earlier, I had the chance to interview Admiral Wang on Arctic issues. In that interview, the Admiral provided an overview on the various states involved in Arctic security and focused on the key challenges facing the Kingdom of Denmark, which is to say managing the relationships…
2014-06-07 By Robbin Laird The Arctic opening is a significant global event. There are a number of key stakeholders in the opening up of the Arctic, with both convergent and conflictual elements at play. Any time conflict is part of the equation, defense capabilities come into play, and they come…
2014-06-06 In the most recent Russia Direct Monthly Memo (#11 June 2014), Vassily Kashin, Senior Research Fellow at the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies focuses on what he terms “Russia Reorients to the Orient.” The Ukrainian crisis marks an important moment in Russian-Chinese relations, catalyzing the creation…
