02/18/18: Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment participate in Fire Support Coordination Exercise at training area Quackenbush aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 19, 2018. The training exercise gave Marines an opportunity to practice a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces…
2018-02-15 By Robbin Laird Helsinki, Finland During my current visit to Helsinki, I had a chance to meet and to discuss the way ahead for Finnish defense with Janne Kuusela, Director General, Defense Policy Department of the Finnish Ministry of Defence. According to the Finnish Ministry of Defence website: The…
2018-02-14 By Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha (Retd) New Delhi. The age old debate rages on worldwide between strategists of both blocks, the ayes and naysayers, on the relevance of the aircraft carriers with respect to their combat power vs. vulnerability. This has undergone periodic pendulous harmonics. Whether it is the…
2018-02-14 By Robbin Laird Helsinki, Finland During my visit to Helsinki during the week of February 11, 2018, I had the chance to sit down with Matti Pesu, a research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. https://www.fiia.fi/en/expert/matti-pesu In a paper published late last year entitled “What non-alignment? Finland’s…
02/15/18: About half of the entire sortie count tallied by the Afghan Air Force in 2016 came on the wings of 24 nondescript, single-engine Cessnas that are constantly taking off and landing on airstrips across the country.
The Cessna 208, a resilient and easy to maintain light airlifter, has “turned…
2018-02-11 Recently, the Finnish Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö met with Commander of the United States Army, General Mark A. Milley in Helsinki. According to a press release on the Finnish MoD website: Earlier General Milley followed a readiness unit's live fire exercise at the Karelia Brigade. The visit is…
2018-02-11 By Robbin Laird The Queen visited RAF Marham in early February to open officially the F-35 facility at the base. According to an ITV report dated February 2, 2018: The Queen has taken a tour of RAF Marham in Norfolk to see how it is preparing for the arrival…
02/13/2018: SNA 30th Annual National Symposium - Naval Warfare Centers: Integrating to win panel. Integrating Naval Warfare Centers from SldInfo.com on Vimeo. 01.10.2018 Defense Media Activity-Navy Production
