5/22/2012 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Press Release) An F-35B Lightning II made its first flight at Eglin Air Force Base today, two months after 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing officially introduced the Marine Corps' fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd Fighter Wing. [caption id="attachment_39225" align="alignleft" width="240"…
In late 2010 a collision between a Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) vessel and a Chinese fishing trawler in a disputed maritime area in the East China Sea saw Sino-Japanese relations enter into a deep freeze from which they are still recovering. The dispute itself, over not only a large maritime…
5/19/12: by Retired Gen. John D.W. Corley and Retired Gen. William R. Looney III The Real consequences of delaying F-35 program; Slowing production will increase costs and keep pilots in obsolete fighters Although American warriors have returned from Iraq and many are returning from Afghanistan, our nation still faces serious and continuing…
By Gordon England May 7, 2012 Excerpts from Defense News Why is the F-16 fighter jet so successful, with 4,500 airplanes delivered and, 30 years later, still in production, while the F-35 is a continuing struggle? I was heavily involved in both programs, to include industry and government, and here…
By Kenneth Maxwell Igor Gielow, reported in Folha de Sao Paulo on Saturday 12 March, that now President Dilma Rousseff has established a Truth Commission to look into cases of deaths and disappearances during the military regime (1964-1985). The Brazilian government was intending to strengthen the position of the Minister…
By Harald Malmgren In the last two years, European leaders took personal responsibility for the performance of the Eurozone economy by holding innumerable “summits” and proposing a variety of actions. In effect, the leaders took personal “ownership” of successes or failures of their economies and financial markets. European voters, no…
By Richard Weitz In a January 31, 2012 hearing on global threats of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert Mueller; warned about the growing cyber threat to the United States. “I do not think today it is necessarily…
In our series on Bold Alligator 2012, we examined various aspects of littoral operations highlighted in the exercise. And we did so with the future evolution of such capabilities in mind. We will soon publish our analytical take on how to think differently with regard to littoral engagement in light…
