A NATO Perspective on Aegis
09/09/2014
09/09/2014: A documentary on the NATO ballistic missile defense system, and video footage from inside the USS Donald Cook. Credit:Natochannel:9/5/14
Supplying Kurdish Fighters: An Overview
09/09/2014
2014-09-09 By Julien Canin With a fluid and dynamic situation in Iraq and Syria, and under the pressure of ISIS successes, the international community has woken up to the need to help the Kurds survive and prevail in the fight with ISIS. And with the Kurds clearly willing to include…
US and Allied Missile Defense RMA Thinking Leaders and Their Technological and Con-Ops Counterpunch
09/08/2014
2014-09-08 In a recent Air and Space Power Journal, William Bell has argued that the adversary missile developments have become a revolution in military affairs in their own right. Certainly the last four years of US military service war games have shown strong indications that missiles not only have evolved…
B-1 Bombers for Afghanistan
09/08/2014
09/08/2014: In this video, the B-1 bomber is seen taking off and landing in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The footage was taken at Al Udeid AB, Qatar. Credit:379th Air Expeditionary Wing:7/8/14 According to a piece by Kris Osborn on Defense Tech published earlier this year: After being built in…
NATO Wales Summit: Osprey Entrance and Special Ops
09/08/2014
09/08/2014: This video includes a speech from the NATO Summit on NATO Special Operations. It begins with an Osprey landing key participants. It is not just Special Ops that is transformed by the Osprey, but the Marines as the only tiltorotar enabled assault force can be a game changer for…
Putin Phoenix: NATO in Play
09/07/2014
2014-09-04 By Kenneth Maxwell President Obama was in Estonia yesterday (September 3) where he met with the nervous presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, in late March, made a plea to NATO: Put 10,000 troops in Poland permanently. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, rejected the idea…
The Future of Indian Air Power: An Interview With Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
09/07/2014
2014-09-07 In this exclusive interview conducted by our partner India Strategic with Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force, the COS provides an overview on how he sees the evolution of Indian Air Power in the joint context. By Gulshan Luthra and Air Marshal…
USS America’s Peruvian Port Visit
09/06/2014
09/06/2014: The future amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) sits at anchorage in the port of La Punta during a scheduled port visit to Callao, Peru. America is currently traveling through the U.S. Southern Command and U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility on her maiden transit, “America Visits the…