The CRW Assessment Team
07/16/2011
07/16/2011 Second Line of Defense visited the Contingency Response Wing located at McGuire AFB. The CRW is a unique expeditionary global capability.
South Sudan’s Independence
07/14/2011
07/13/2011 Richard Weitz examines the nature of South Sudanese independence and its impacts.
F-35 Era Starts at Eglin
07/14/2011
07/14/2011 Ironically, the F-35 is launched at Eglin on Bastille Day.
Emerging Alliance, Part IV
07/13/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/13/2011 - Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military intelligence official, became one of the world's premier gray market weapons merchants. His relationship with Taylor shaped and lived off of interlocking networks.
The Littoral Combat Ship and the Newly Enabled ARG
07/12/2011
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake 07/12/2011 - The USN is buying the LCS but its Con-Ops remain to be developed. No platform fights alone, and this asset is best understood in terms of the synergy which can be brought to it by how it is connected to other combat…
Russian Bulava SLBM Will Enter Service Next Year
07/11/2011
By Dr. Richard Weitz 07/11/2011 - Russia moves ahead on updating and upgrading its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Lessons from Broken Japanese Supply Chains
07/11/2011
07/11/2011 The era of ever-expanding supply chains in combination with just-in-time inventory management may have quietly ended, and a new era of calculated redundancy and greater localization may have begun.
Emerging Alliance, Part III
07/08/2011
By Douglas Farah 07/08/2011 - Charles Taylor in Liberia as a case study of states and terrorist criminal pipelines.