A number of key drivers for change in cybersecurity policy are in play, including significant legislation pending, more than a few international regulatory bodies meeting, companies beginning to publicly complain about hacking from allegedly government entities, and now the United States State Department raising access to Cyber as a fundamental…
By Robert Johnson U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st platoon, delta company, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment conduct a mounted counter indirect fire patrol in Sabari, Afghanistan (Courtesy Photo: Joint Combat Camera Afghanistan, Coalition Outpost Sabari, Afghanistan, 01/15/10)To be Tracked or to be Wheeled: A False Debate? There is a debate…
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…
SLDinfo visited Eglin Air Force Base in early January and interviewed the senior leadership with regard to various programs, capabilities and approaches to the future. The most compelling aspect of Eglin to an outsider is the confluence of two core capabilities: The first revolves around weapons; the second around shaping…
Preparing for the F35: The 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base Stands Up a Comprehensive Training Facility Sldinfo’s Robbin Laird interviewed Colonel Tomassetti, 33rd Fighter Wing, Vice Commander, in early January 2010 and discussed the 33rd Fighter Wing’s approach to F-35 training and the nature of the training…
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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.…
2010-06-23 By Robbin Laird (
[email protected]) The Northwest Passage: A Dream To Come True? As the Arctic becomes altered by climate change, three key elements are re-shaping global dynamics. First, the melting Arctic is creating new transit routes so that past dreams like the Northwest Passage are becoming possible. Instead of…
