2016-06-03 By Richard McCormack Washington legislators have re-awakened to concerns over the Defense Department's inability to plan for and deal with what is now the final stage in the shift of American microelectronics production offshore. Congress wants the Pentagon to figure out how it is going to deal with issues…
2016-05-29 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The great historian Max Hastings in a seminal book about all the fighting forces of World War II said that after some very nasty set backs early in the war, the US and Royal Navies emerged as the most effective fighting forces in…
2016-05-27 Earlier this week, the Defence Committee of the Danish Parliament held a hearing on the government’s decision to buy the F-35 as the new fighter aircraft for Denmark. On May 12, 2016, the Danish government made a decision to select the F-35 as their fighter replacement choice and released…
2016-05-31 RAF Lossiemouth is a Quick Reaction base and supports the Baltic Air Policing Mission as well. This ensures that Typhoon pilots and crews are getting used to dealing with the Russian Air Force. [maxgallery id="86830"] According to David Mackay of The Press and Journal in a piece published May…
2016-06-03 An important achievement in European military cooperation has been the European Air Transport Command. According to the European Air Transport Command (EATC) website: On 1st September 2010 a new chapter in the book of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) was opened, as the EATC was inaugurated in Eindhoven,…
2016-05-26 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake On May 23 and 24, 2016, we visited Jacksonville Naval Air Station and spent time with the P-8 and Triton community which is shaping a common culture guiding the transformation of the ASW and ISR side of Naval Air. The acquisition term for…
2016-05-29 When we wrote our book on evolving Pacific strategy, we highlighted what we thought was a critical need to reshape how the Army positioned itself in the Pacific. Let us review possible Army roles and approaches in the period ahead in the Pacific. The most obvious one is its…
2016-05-26 Earlier, we were at Pax River on February 5, 2016, when the first F-35 arrived from Italy and performed the first trans-Atlantic crossing of an F-35. We wrote at the time: On Feb. 5, the Italian Air Force’s first F-35, AL-1 with code “32-01” and markings of the 32 Stormo Wing…
