An Update on the Indian Rafale Contract By India Strategic

10/07/2015
2015-10-07 By Gulshan Luthra http://www.indiastrategic.in/topstories4097_Rafale_Contract_by_end_2015_says_Air_Chief_Arup_Raha.htm Dateline New Delhi and Paris In an interview with India Strategic and at remarks at his annual pre-Air Force Day briefing here October 3, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha observed that the Indian Air Force (IAF) was “terribly short” of…

France Closes the Door on the Mistral Deal: An Opportunity to Address the Shortfall in US Amphibious Capability?

08/08/2015
2015-08-08 Earlier, Second Line of Defense has raised the question several times about whether the execution of the Mistral deal made any sense in light of Russian actions in Europe. As Steve Blank noted in 2014: Whatever the logic of negotiating a deal with Russia in 2011, the strategic situation…

Europe Reconsidering Itself

08/03/2015
2015-07-23  By Harald Malmgren In parallel to the Eurogroup-Greece imbroglio Europe has also found itself torn by other conflicting political and security priorities. Paramount for some European nations are the growing tensions with Russia. President Putin’s aggressive behavior in the Ukraine continues, and there are signs of intention to extend…

Next Steps in NATO Missile Defense

08/02/2015
2015-08-01 By Richard Weitz At the 2010 Lisbon summit, NATO decided to make missile defense a priority mission and committed to protect European populations and territory from missile attacks as well as their deployed armed forces. The NATO decision did not highlight any particular country as a threat but cited…