2014-03-04 by Ed Timperlake There is no area of operation within the federal government that provides a more critical and direct link to the immediate safety of millions of people than air traffic control. More than 1.5 million people fly across the United States daily on one or more of…
03/02/2014: In this video prepared by the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command located at Fort Shafter near Honolulu, the evolving role of ARMY missile defense is highlighted. The video played during 94th AAMDC Brig. Gen. Daniel Karbler's 2013 AUSA LANPAC Panel discussion that he hosted. [caption id="attachment_62860" align="alignnone"…
2014-03-01 Ed Timperlake The late Chairman Gerald Solomon of the House Committee on Rules, “the Speaker’s Committee” focused intensely on Ukraine. In 1998 he was also Vice President of the North Atlantic Assembly, which is the legislative side of NATO. As Chairman he took a Congressional Delegation to Kiev and…
2014-02-28 Second Line of Defense is currently visiting the Pacific and soon will visit the Wedgetail squadron, which currently operates from RAAF Base Williamtown, near Newcastle, New South Wales. During the exercise AWACS and Wedgetail played the core command and control role and F-22s in Alaska (which includes one flown by…
02/25/2014: In this video insert from an interview conducted at PACAF at Hickam AFB on February 24, 2014, Jim Silva, Deputy Director, Logistics (A4D), discusses the parts sharing arrangement between the US and the Aussies with regard to the C-17. Credit: Second Line of Defense
02/25/2014: In an interview conducted at Hickam AFB in Hawaii with Col. Mickey Addison, Director of Installations and Mission Support or the PACAF command engineer (A7), the Colonel discusses the places versus places approach to logistics for PACAF. He emphasized the important role of exercises in shaping ways to support…
2014-02-23 By Maj General (Retd) PK Chakravorty Israel and India India are intense strategic partners. Both countries were created at approximately the same time and despite different perceptions have all along been reliable partners. The creation of Israel was opposed by Mahatma Gandhi but the erstwhile Jansangh (present Bharatiya Janta Party)…
2014-02-17 By Harald Malmgren ECB President Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to defend the Euro is simply not meaningful without German support. When Draghi brought forward his Ordinary Monetary Transactions (OMT) concept as available under the mandate of the ECB to maintain monetary stability, the Bundesbank promptly sent…
