BY JOHN WHEELER As we remember the Fallen on Memorial Day, we should be concerned lest adopting older COIN rules, where the ground troops are in equivalence with the insurgents, add needless US and allied casualties. With the tool sets which have evolved over the past decade, we should pursue…
BY RICHARD WEITZ Although the debate continues over the origins and consequences of the regime change in Kyrgyzstan, attention in Washington, for better or worse, is fixated on whether the new Kyrgyz government will continue the U.S. lease to the air base at Manas international airport. The Pentagon considers the…
SLD went to Pax River in April 2010 to interview several members of the Pax River test team. In this interview, Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird talked with test pilot “Squirt” Kelly about his thoughts on the F-35 experience. [slidepress gallery=’the-f-35-pilot-an-interview-with-test-pilot-squirt-kelly-at-pax-river’] SLD: You’ve been testing the helmet and the plane.…
AN INTERVIEW WITH LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DEHNER "One of the new operational capabilities of the F-35B is its ability to sense the IR energy or the heat coming off the environment, a full 360 degrees around the aircraft. It’s as if you are in the middle of a soccer ball : this…
AN INTERVIEW WITH TEST PILOT "SQUIRT" KELLY "We think there will be a building block approach, as we integrate more of the capabilities into the aircraft and the helmet. We saw the same jump in tactics development in the simulator when we first added the helmet capability. We had to…
AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GAVIARD "I would like to tell you about the very sensitive problems inherent to target designation as we experienced it in situ. Air operations have always been monitored closely politically."
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE COMMANDER OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND "Asset visibility is the cornerstone of effective end-to-end delivery. We are working to enhance such visibility. Indeed, we are standing up a new fusion center, which will allow us to have real-time visibility on assets and to make better decisions that…
AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM GOUDREAU "There is no doubt that asset visibility and supply chain visibility are an important component of controlling bubbles in the supply chain."
