By Ambassador (Ret.) Jon D. Glassman 11/05/2010 - NATO, at its impending Lisbon summit, will decide whether to embrace ballistic missile defense of its member nations as an alliance mission. It will also consider whether to extend its capability against medium and intermediate range upper tier threats, to enhance strategic…
An Interview with Major Lee York 11/05/2010 - "I have read all stories, all the naysayers, that the V-22 can’t replace the FROG. But my experience says the opposite. The landing zones if used in '04-'05 with the FROG, we went back in '07 with V-22 and we landed in…
By David J. Smith 10/29/2010 - Russia says that it will provide Syria with P-800 Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles.
By Michael W. Wynne 10/29/2010 - In time, fighter pilots should act in similar ways to ground commanders organizing the ingressing command, making sure that the central air operations center is distributing targets to other shooters, but protecting his area of operation; keeping his fire teams progressing to the objectives…
By Dr. Richard Weitz 10/29/2010 - Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), faces a major challenge in seeking to prevent further nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. In addition to the longstanding dispute over Iran’s nuclear activities, he has to address Arab concerns about…
By Ambassador (Ret.) Jon D. Glassman 10/28/2010 - As NATO considers assumption of homeland territorial ballistic missile defense (BMD) as an alliance mission at the Lisbon Summit in November, and as Israel, the countries around the Persian Gulf, and Japan proceed with their own BMD acquisition, missile defense now moves…
By Vince Martinez 10/29/2010 - Although interesting, unmanned systems by themselves do not create desired effects. Only when such systems are blended into an effective concept of operations will they become useful tools to the warfighter or the global security team.
An Interview with Lt. Col. Applewhite 10/29/2010 -Earlier this summer, Second Line of Defense talked about the most recent USMC logistics game and some of the conclusions that might be drawn from that wargame for USMC approaches to expeditionary logistics. At the time of the interview, Lt. Col. Applewhite was…
