Cyber Diplomacy: Coincidence or Strategy at the Copenhagen Conference
01/25/2010
On the day the Copenhagen conference opened (December 15th), the Google website in China was attacked and gmail accounts accessed.
Israel-NATO Rapprochement on Logs
01/24/2010
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has started the process of adopting Nato’s Classification System (NCS).
November 1, 1941 Bulletin: Liberty Ship Production Stopped
01/24/2010
Upon being advised of the GRO’s findings, the White House indicated that they would proceed with production...
DARPA To Review Impact Of Globalization On U.S. Industry
01/10/2010
Under the new leadership of DARPA director Regina Dugan, the agency has announced an “Industry Summit”...
A European Union focus on Maritime Surveillance
12/08/2009
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.
French Special Forces in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned
11/30/2009
In an interview published in the French quarterly "Marine", former Commander of Task Group Ares in Afghanistan in 2006, Commander Bruno de Zélicourt of the French Navy Commandos warns that by, now being absent from Afghanistan, the FSF are at risk of being singled out in the eyes of NATO…
NDU Study Recommends DOD Step Into The Manufacturing Policy Void
11/24/2009
The 2009 Manufacturing Industry Study conducted by the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. concludes that U.S. manufacturing is "on the wrong side of an emerging inflection point, from which it may not be able to recover without concerted action."
Support at the Heart of the French Acquisition Process Restructuring
11/22/2009
Officially announced last month, the French DGA (Délégation générale de l’armement) is going through the same massive reorganization as the rest of the government main defense bodies...