An Interview with Marty Jenkins 02/12/2011 - The JTRS Enterprise is designed for the future, the present, and again bringing in the legacy of past. Why would you invest in hardwired infrastructure that has a single function and a time-defined life cycle of usefulness? Why not invest in infrastructure with…
By Richard Weitz 02/16/2011 - On January 14, the Russian newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta published an interview with Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, on what he called an issue of “an enormous strategic and economic significance.” Patrushev stated that the Council had directed that the government approve…
High energy lasers offer a number of properties that make them particularly attractive for meeting the emerging high-intensity, combined threat of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, remotely piloted aircraft, glide bombs, rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM).
By Richard Weitz 02/07/2011 - Perhaps the main tool of influence available to the United States in the current crisis in Egypt is the decades-long relationship that Washington has cultivated with that country’s military and intelligence services. The recent experience reminds us that military-to-military relationships have important diplomatic and security…
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake 02/06/2011 - Notably absent from any Western commentary about the Tunisian and Egyptian “awakenings” is Iraq. Yet Baghdad is only 806 miles or 1297 kms from Cairo. And the American and UK intervention in Iraq has created a new political reality and dynamic. Regardless…
By General Gaviard 01/28/2011 - Transformation based on networks is now real. Slogans are far, and concrete achievements in this field are increasing throughout the industrial and technological base of French defense. (...) Regarding operations, we must concentrate on four major topics: writing the concept of operations ; the touchy…
By Richard McCormack 01/28/2011 - China’s steady rise as a telecommunications manufacturing and research powerhouse has “profound” national security and economic ramifications for the United States, according to the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
An Interview with Marty Jenkins 01/26/2011 - "If you were to choose a better name, what would it be? It might be the joint network system. The program isn't providing that end user device, that handheld or that desktop. It's providing the entire infrastructure that enables that."
