“Guns Guns Guns”: The Importance of Light Attack Aircraft
02/25/2011
An airborne pilot is up close and personal with both sensors and combat teeth and is not fighting the battle from a computer consul half a world away.
The JTRS Infrastructure
02/24/2011
An Interview with Marty Jenkins 02/24/2011 - With peer-to-peer networking, you enable all levels to have better visibility on what’s happening in the battle space. Better visibility on who from the U.S.-led coalition are in the area…and what they’re doing.
Providing New Capabilities for the Ground Warrior
02/24/2011
An Interview with Lt. General Deptula 02/24/2011 - What motion video accomplishes at the most basic level is to increase a user's situation awareness of what's around him or her. That's why it’s in such demand. Gorgon Stare is a pod set. It is two pods carried onboard an MQ-9…
The U.S. Military and Bahrain
02/24/2011
By Dr. Richard Weitz 02/24/2011 - Perhaps the most important functions of the Bahrain naval base is to coordinate and support U.S. Navy operations in the Persian Gulf and surrounding regions. The island of Bahrain itself is located halfway down the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Saudi Arabia…
The Evolution of Hypersonics and Its Impact on the Future of Warfare, Part I
02/24/2011
This is the first of three parts of Dr. Lewis's look at hypersonics.
Senate Ponders Iraq 2012
02/19/2011
By Richard Weitz 02/18/2011 - "We are witnessing an historic moment in the Middle East, and it is impossible to predict exactly what lies ahead. But clearly, whatever transpires, it is going to have a profound impact, a huge influence on the region and on American foreign policy in that…
“Yes We Can” Meets “No We Won’t”
02/16/2011
By Bill Anderson 02/16/2011 - Alternative energy technological development overseas outpaces our own efforts here at home.
Russia: The Non-Reluctant Arctic Power
02/12/2011
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…