CAS: A CORE CONTRIBUTOR TO SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATED OPERATIONS IN FALLUJAH (Reprinted courtesy of the Marine Corps Gazette. Copyright retained by the Marine Corps Gazette) By Maj Fred H. Allison, USMCR (Ret) Maj Allison is a former Marine F–4 radar intercept officer. He earned his doctorate in history from Texas Tech…
By Richard McCormack (Manufacturing News) The Eradication of the U.S. Industrial Base Worsened by the Crisis The U.S. military risks not being able to field an army if Congress does not start addressing the loss of the American industrial base by reforming tax laws to encourage domestic production. “The defense…
Dr. Harald Malmgren is a recognized expert on world trade and investment flows. At Yale University Malmgren was Scholar of the House and research assistant to Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling, graduating BA summa cum laude in 1957. At Oxford University, he studied under Nobel Laureate Sir John Hicks, and wrote several…
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…
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…
