Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao (Photo: China Daily, 12/17/2009) The Chinese strategy at the Copenhagen conference has been discussed in Hal Malmgren’s article entitled "Copenhagen Dynamics: A Window into 21st Century Geo-Politics". In effect, the Chinese wanted neither to be blamed for any failure of…
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[email protected]) [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="www.nato.int"][/caption] IDS Log Harmonization: a "win-win" initiative The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has started the process of adopting Nato’s Classification System (NCS). The NCS is “the codification system used by the armed forces of all NATO countries in order to facilitate military…
[caption id="attachment_3992" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? (Florida International University)"][/caption] A report by the Government Review Office (GRO), an arm of the US Congress, upheld the protest by the Northwest Shipyards of Seattle Washington against the plan to build Liberty ships in yards across the country.…
By Richard McCormack (Manufacturing News) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring how it can once again become a driving force in the U.S. economy. Under new leadership, the agency has announced plans to host an “Industry Summit” that will explore “globalization and its impact on U.S. industry.”…
The European Union has for a number of years been focusing on ways to enhance what the US calls “Maritime Domain Awareness” via increased collaboration among relevant stakeholders. As European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Joe Borg commented: "For maritime surveillance to work as well as it can, it…
[caption id="attachment_2566" align="alignleft" width="102" caption="Revue Marine November 2009"][/caption] In the current issue of Marine, a quarterly publication by the French Navy’s Association of Reserve Officers (Association des officiers de réserve de la Marine nationale) a special series of articles on NATO’s involvement in Afghanistan called «Afghanistan: Which Path for the…
Global Manufacturing Employment Trends (NDU Study, p. 17) By Richard McCormack For the sake of U.S. national security, the federal government and the Department of Defense must stop ignoring the decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector and put in place policies that reinvigorate American production. That is the recommendation from…
Officially announced on October 6th, 2009, the French DGA (Délégation générale de l’armement) is going through the same massive reorganization as the rest of the government main defense bodies: it follows the same philosophy and the same logic as the overall reforms launched over the past several years, which can…
