2014-12-09 By Paul Bracken, Yale University A turn in attitudes about nuclear weapons is taking place. There is a growing realization that we are entering a multipolar nuclear world. Despite pious U.S. appeals to other countries to give up nuclear arms, this isn't happening. And there's little sign that it…
12/31/2014: U.S. Marine Corps students attending Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) Course 1-15 participate in a close air support exercise utilizing the AH-1Z Cobra aircraft at Mount Barrow, Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Calif., Oct. 02, 2014. The AH-1 close air support exercise supported WTI 1-15 hosted by Marine Aviation…
12/30/2014: Paratroopers with the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, conducting a live fire training exercise under Arctic winter conditions at Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely, Alaska, October 7, 2014. Credit:4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Public Affairs:10/7/14
12/29/2014: In the first three photos, an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the Battle Cats of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 lifts off from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17,…
12/28/2014: Yeoman 2nd Class Shuan Linnell, from Becker, Minn., assigned to the Battle Cats of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73, washes an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air…
12/26/2014: Sailors on the visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team practice mobile shooting during rifle training on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). Sterett is seen underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of the Carl Vinson Carrier…
12/23/2014: Two AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopters with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (Reinforced), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), depart the USS Makin Island in support of ongoing operations, Sept. 24. [maxgallery id="70349"] Credit:11th MEU:9/24/14 The 11th MEU is a forward-deployed, flexible sea-based Marine Air-Ground Task Force embarked with the Makin…
2014-12-23 By Richard Weitz In its newly published book, Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine (East View Press, October 2014; by Vasiliy Kashin, Sergey Denisentsev, et al; edited by Colby Howard and Ruslan Pukhov), the experts at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), Moscow’s premier…
