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Rapid Integration as the Core Challenge: The 53rd Test and Evaluation Group Works the Challenge

10/24/2018
Recently, the head of the USAF, General Goldfein, underscored the importance of force integration to delivering effective results. Speaking at this year's Air Force Association Air Warfare symposium, General Goldfein argued: “In today’s complex global security environment, it is not the best ideas but who can act on these ideas…

US Marines Train for Landing in Restricted Terrain

10/24/2018
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 3 and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 363 team up during a helicopter support team (HST) exercise at Landing Zone Westfield, Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Sept 20, 2018. The HST exercise provides training to landing support specialists with CLB-3 and VMM-363…

Direct Defense of Norway and the Role of NATO: The Norwegian MoD Explains to the Norwegian People

10/21/2018
Recently, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence created a web page and posted a video explaining to the Norwegian population about the coming Trident Juncture exercise and what the core focus of Norwegian defense unfolding in the current period. What follows is our translation (with apologies to our Norwegian friends) of…

Trident Juncture 2018: The Marines and the Initial Phase

10/21/2018
Around 90 US Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit landed at Keflavík on Wednesday (17 October 2018), marking the initial phase of NATO’s Exercise Trident Juncture 2018 in Iceland. The main phase of Trident Juncture will start in Norway on October 25. Arriving by MV-22 Osprey and CH-53 Sea…

Disaggregated Globalization: The Next Phase of Global Development

10/21/2018
by Kenneth Maxwell Dante's "Inferno", the 14th century epic poem, where Hell is nine concentric circles of torment located within the earth. It is the most appropriate analogy for the seriousness of the national dilemmas and the international challenges that confront us To start at the outer circle of Dante's…

Hangar Bay Ops During Valiant Shield 2018

10/19/2018
Crew members aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conduct maintenance on U.S Navy EA-18G Growlers during exercise Valiant Shield 18, Sept. 19, 2018. Valiant Shield is a biennial, U.S. only, field training exercise with a focus on integration of joint training among U.S. forces. GUAM 09.19.2018 Video by Staff Sgt. Emili…