Photo Credit: SM3 Missile Launch, http://news.cnet.com 03/10/2011 - The Obama Administration has placed significant emphasis on continuing the upgrade path for the Aegis BMD program. By cancelling the Bush missile defense program in Europe, de facto, the Administration highlighted its commitment to Aegis as a key element for global missile…
How Amphibious Forces Create Strategic Options By Vince Martinez 03/06/2011 - The world is changing. For many who have studied the subject over the last decade, the Arc of Instability is coming to fruition. Old powers are beginning to falter under the pressures of collapsing economies, the lack of resources,…
By Jean-Marc Tanguy Photo Credit: 1st RCP, Jean-Marc Tanguy, Cahors, France, 2011 03/05/2011 - Legend already has it that it is to remind us that the First Parachute Chasseurs Regiment - Premier Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes - (1st RCP), a French Army airborne unit and the very first French parachute…
How the New Amphibious Ready Group Expands the President’s Options By Robbin Laird 03/05/2011 - The Libyan crisis is occurring in a period of challenges to the USAF and USN’s ability to deliver capabilities useful to the President. Part of the problem is the significant commitment of dwindling assets for…
No Accident: The Newly Configured USMC Amphibious Ready Group 2016 By Ed Timperlake 03/05/2011 - “In short, simply by completing the procurement of what the USN and USMC are in the course of doing in a very short period, (F-35B, MV-22, CH-53K, LCS and LPD-17) the nation gains significant flexibility…
03/03/2011 - [slidepress gallery='uss-bainbridge-leaves-norfolk'] Credit text and photos: U.S. Navy Visual Service, January 4th, 2011 The first photo shows sailors on the Sea and Anchor detail hauling in the mooring lines aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge as the ship prepares to leave Naval Station Norfolk. The second photo shows…
CLR-15 Marines Transport Fuel with Afghan Local Nationals Credit Text and Video: 1st Marine Logistics Group Public Affairs, January 20th, 2011 Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 15 (Forward), 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) escort local nationals delivering fuel to Marines of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
China’s Innovation Policies Will Create Greater Imbalances Originally published in Manufacturing and Technology News, February 18, 2011 03/03/2011 - China’s strategy of forcing western multinational companies to transfer their most innovative technologies, research and design to China in order to continue doing business there is succeeding, and it is succeeding…
