When Fallujah erupted in April 2004, the Marines needed TacAir that operated above 11,500 feet for CAS, creating air control problems. (...) By turning the Fallujah fight over to the Marine Corps the CFACC could focus on other areas where insurgent activity was expected to increase.
At the heart of logistics and sustainment are readiness issues. “If the military and its equipment are not ready to fight, its ability to influence events is significantly reduced. And the ability to count on availability of weapons systems is a significant aspect shaping concepts of operations worldwide", he explains.
The search for a balanced agreement has led to a risk sharing approach between Dassault Aviation and the French government: on the company's part, the challenge is to give a guarantee on a very high reliability of equipment for the coming years; on the state's part, it is to take…
Even thought immediate parallels to Hurricane Katrina have been made, the real story is the way the US Military in Haiti has been building on the lessons learned by providing aid and comfort to the victims of the 2005 Tsunami.
Urban close air support (CAS) successfully employed in Fallujah in 2004 highlights the capability of Marine Corps-style command and control (C2) of aviation. The CAS plan was built on Marine Corps C2 basics—procedural control and unity of command, which were enhanced with a common map or grid reference graphic (GRG).
The goal of the conference held by the Stevens Institute for Technology was to shape a sourcebook for Cybersecurity Policy.
There is a debate simmering “under the radar” between different camps, mostly within the U.S. Army, concerning which is best suited to meet the demands of combat operations in Afghanistan: tracked or wheeled combat vehicles.(...) The debate between Strykers and HBCT vehicles tends to cloud the more relevant and important…
Eglin is the home to the Air Armament Center where Major General CR Davis (formerly PEO of the F-35 program) functions as both the AAC Commander as well as the USAF PEO for Weapons. Given the size of the base, and the collocation of all elements of the weapons development…
