By Ed Timperlake 07/21/2011 - The F-35C for the Marines makes little sense; and the F-35B might well be the most important F-35 for several allies under threat of missile attacks with a high degree survivability requirements.
07/17/2011 The F-35A enters the operational inventory. Col. Tomassetti discusses the significance of this transition.
07/13/2011 Richard Weitz examines the nature of South Sudanese independence and its impacts.
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake 07/12/2011 - The USN is buying the LCS but its Con-Ops remain to be developed. No platform fights alone, and this asset is best understood in terms of the synergy which can be brought to it by how it is connected to other combat…
07/11/2011 The era of ever-expanding supply chains in combination with just-in-time inventory management may have quietly ended, and a new era of calculated redundancy and greater localization may have begun.
By Dr. Richard Weitz 07/11/2011 - Russia moves ahead on updating and upgrading its nuclear weapons arsenal.
07/08/2011 The Congress threatens USCG cutter modernization. Cutting USCG capability one platform whack at a time.
07/07/2011 The Eurofighter consortium would clearly like to be the F-15 replacement in Japan, where a recent accident led to the grounding of the 40 year old aircraft.
