In June 2009, the Aircraft Sectoral Group (ASG) within the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe (ASD) issued a thought piece on the future of European Air Power System...
“It is time for a rethink of European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP)." (...) A new mission concept is needed as the methods that allowed a relative success in Bosnia are much less pertinent for the type of interventions the EU is presently involved in. The need is now for…
In a recent study published by the Mitchell Institute for Airpower studies, Rebecca Grant examines the challenges facing the future of the defense aerospace industrial base.
Schumpeter, in his classic approach to creative economic destruction, watched consolidation in technologies and industries driven by natural forces until a secondary or new technology essentially destroyed the hold of one and created another set of competitive forces. The aerospace industry is barely one hundred plus years old, and here…
For a 21st Century Air Campaign the rule must always be ---go up against American Air Forces--- “you emit you die.” The Australian team has highlighted something very important.
With the announcement of President Obama's Surge policy in Afghanistan and the addition of 30,000 extra-troops in a six-month framework, a key question is on the lips: "how are we going to keep providing the equipment the troops will need once in the Afghan theater?"
The pressing need to modernize U.S. Coast Guard long-range assets has been discussed frequently in many different venues. But there has been less focus on the key issues of the other assets, which the USCG needs to modernize.
Network centric warfare has hijacked the common understanding of the impact of C4ISR. The ability to connect assets is central to effectiveness in performance of missions, and in a period where platform acquisition will be more difficult, the ability of the US and its allies to work together is increasingly…
