An Interview with Joel Malone 07/25/2011 - The shift from the F-16 to the F-35A for the USAF will provide significant capability to improve operational performance and operational tempo.
By Vince Martinez 07/25/2011 - The struggle for senior defense officials is often in taking tangible lessons from war and applying them directly toward the acquisitions, planning programming and budgeting, and requirements generation systems.
By Douglas Farah 07/22/2011 - The drug trade increases by orders of magnitude the economic resources available to criminal operatives and their allies.
In late June 2011, Second Line of Defense visited McGuire Air Force Base and was briefed on the 621st Contingency Response Wing resident to the 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force. This unique asset operates globally to create airfields on demand to support the USAF’s ability to insert force worldwide in…
By Dr. Richard Weitz 07/22/2011 - The State Department’s Internet Freedom agenda faces major challenges in the former Soviet bloc.
07/21/2011 - Instead of tweeting, Senator McCain should be thinking about his constituent's interests and the future of American capability to defend itself.
By Ed Timperlake 07/21/2011 - The F-35C for the Marines makes little sense; and the F-35B might well be the most important F-35 for several allies under threat of missile attacks with a high degree survivability requirements.
07/20/2011 As the CRW is deployed to carry its core missions, security is a must. Sgt. Gomez led the discussion during the SLD visit to the CRW about this challenging task.