2013-09-23 By Ed Timperlake John Boyd in his lecture (which I sat through twice) had a sine qua non building block for his work: the F-86 versus Mig-15 exchange rate kills by his beloved F-86 in "MIG Ally. " The exchange rate was approximately 10 to 1. Lessons learned at…
2013-09-22 Brazil is the 6th largest economy in the world. It is also a leader of a significant group of developing nations which is called the BRIC nations. This term refers to the developing countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The NSA spy scandal has clearly hurt U.S. national security interests.…
[caption id="attachment_57414" align="alignnone" width="300"] The EU-Singapore deal is the first with a country from south-east Asia (Photo: European Commission)[/caption] 2013-09-21 Singapore is a key country in South East Asia, economically, and strategically. We have written about the growing role for European defense industry in working with Asian countries, and Singapore is…
2013-09-21 With the changing strategic situation in Asia, the government of the Philippines is reworking its relationship with the U.S. military. According to sources in Manila, a key consideration is the mobility, which the evolving USMC brings to the stage. As this source noted: “The Marines can move rapidly with the…
by Robbin Laird In a recent Washington Post treatment of the cancellation of the visit to Washington of the Brazilian President, the event was treated as a non-event. Indeed, it was seen almost as the action of an hysterical, desperate woman unable to get her way. But hidden in the…
2013-09-19 By Chiragov Fuad Center for Strategic Studies, Azerbaijan The international community has been staring with one eye on recent developments in Syria, North Korea, Iran and elsewhere, and with other eye on Washington. What will Washington do to deal with the evolving crises? Since the policies and strategies of…
2013-09-18 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The current Chief of Staff of the USAF has prioritized an IOC for the F-35 and the acquisition of the F-35. In Japan, he noted that: “The F-35 is flying, it is a real thing, and progress is real,” he said. Several countries, including…
2013-09-17 by Oscar Nkala and Kim Helfrich DefenceWeb US Army Africa Command (Africom) wants private contractors to move military equipment and supplies from the US to Egypt and 55 other countries within its Area of Responsibility (AOR) starting this month. This comes hard on the heels of a transport contract…
