On April 17, 2015, two of our partners, the Williams Foundation (Australia) and the Centre for Military Studies (University of Copenhagen) hosted a seminar in Copenhagen on airpower innovation. In this Special Report, an overview to the Symposium as well as the speaker’s presentations are highlighted and summarized. Related material…
05/20/2015: Lt. Gen. John W. Wissler talks at a press conference about the found Huey that went missing after conducting casualty evacuations when Nepal was struck with a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, May 15 at Kathmandu, Nepal. The aircraft carried six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers. The U.S. troops are part…
2015-05-16 The Baltic states have no air force. NATO provides the Baltic Air Patrol to provide for air protection for them. According to one of the first articles on the UK MoD website after the Purdah publishing ban during the time of the election, RAF typhoons from 6 squadron intercepted…
2015-05-13 The tragic crash of an A400M (MSN 23), a plane for the Turkish Air Force, at Seville on May 9th, 2015 near the final assembly plant, reminds us of how risky the introduction of new systems can be. The plane was due to be delivered to the Turkish Air…
2015-04-23 By Robbin Laird Copenhagen is a lovely city. The Danes are hearty and friendly folks. They just don’t seem the kind of folks who need to open their mail and a get a greeting from the Russian Ambassador, who after all is a guest in their country, that reads…
2015-04-27 By Risk Intelligence The Maghreb region has long been a rich breeding ground for Islamic extremism and this is true of the security problems in Egypt, Mali and Libya. These problems, coupled with a growing social divide within the populace, rising food and fuel prices, and an increase in…
2015-04-24 Dr. Peter Viggo Jakobsen, from the Royal Danish Defence College, provided an overview of the evolution of Danish defense policy to lead off the Symposium on Airpower co-hosted by the Williams Foundation and the Centre for Military Studies of the University of Copenhagen. http://sldinfo.wpstage.net/the-danish-airpower-symposium-laying-a-foundation-for-rethinking-coalition-airpower/ Jakobsen explained that Denmark was…
2015-04-06 By Kenneth Maxwell It remains a very odd phenomenon. Brazil seems wedded to a very bad habit of navel gazing. It is as if the rest of the world did not matter much. It is as if all of Brazil's problems were self-created or at the very least that they are the exclusive concern…
