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…
An Interview with Captain Paul Smith 10/29/2010 - We’re all under the same umbrella. We’re all under the same SOP. It makes everything flow and work that much easier. So that’s the sure intent, it's to support V-22 nation. Shared assets, shared experiences are building our domain knowledge.
By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the U.S. Air Force 10/17/2010 - What are the available platforms and technologies that we have invested in to date? And how can we shape effective concepts of operations for a joint and combined air strike force, which leverage these capabilities?
An Interview With Captain Dwyer (II) 10/17/2010 "The V-22 was used in a perfect conceptual way. We ranged the entire island. We went out to little villages that nobody had been to. We went from the epicenter. We covered the whole concentric rings from where the earthquake struck and we…
By Hon. Bill Anderson What if we could incentivize the private sector to offer distributed alternative energy solutions that could provide energy and potable water at the point of use at forward operating bases and do it without large technology development earmarks…so, not spending an additional dime of taxpayer money?…
By Dr. Richard Weitz 10/16 /2010 The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency is expected to confirm soon an estimated $60 billion U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The unstated but widely understood purpose of the sale, which has been under discussion since 2007, is to enhance the Kingdom’s ability to…
