F-35 Era Starts at Eglin
07/14/2011
07/14/2011 Ironically, the F-35 is launched at Eglin on Bastille Day.
Emerging Alliance, Part IV
07/13/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/13/2011 - Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military intelligence official, became one of the world's premier gray market weapons merchants. His relationship with Taylor shaped and lived off of interlocking networks.
The Littoral Combat Ship and the Newly Enabled ARG
07/12/2011
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake 07/12/2011 - The USN is buying the LCS but its Con-Ops remain to be developed. No platform fights alone, and this asset is best understood in terms of the synergy which can be brought to it by how it is connected to other combat…
Russian Bulava SLBM Will Enter Service Next Year
07/11/2011
By Dr. Richard Weitz 07/11/2011 - Russia moves ahead on updating and upgrading its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Lessons from Broken Japanese Supply Chains
07/11/2011
07/11/2011 The era of ever-expanding supply chains in combination with just-in-time inventory management may have quietly ended, and a new era of calculated redundancy and greater localization may have begun.
Emerging Alliance, Part III
07/08/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/08/2011 - Charles Taylor in Liberia as a case study of states and terrorist criminal pipelines.
How to Make USCG Modernization Unaffordable
07/08/2011
07/08/2011 The Congress threatens USCG cutter modernization. Cutting USCG capability one platform whack at a time.
Ending Arctic Reluctance
07/07/2011
Photo Credit: www.barentsobserver.com Ending Arctic Reluctance By Rear Admiral Jeffrey M. Garrett 07/07/2011 - Long relegated to the periphery of world affairs—occupying the distorted top edge of a conventional Mercator projection of the world—the Arctic has been rediscovered in the first decade of the new millennium. (...) The Arctic…