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…
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…
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…
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…
2014-09-06 The rise of the PRC is certainly an important event and process in the 21st century. But it can be forgotten that the PRC has virtually no developed allies, unless one wants to consider Putin capable of such a description. What this means is that the constant set of…
2014-09-05 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Second Line of Defense was launched at the beginning of the period for deployments of the MV-22. We have been able to track the evolution of the concepts of operations, and of the changes in the USMC associated with the new platform. As…
09/05/2014: Deployed Airmen from the 968th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, 380th Air AWACS use the E-3 AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) to provide airborne surveillance, command, control and communication functions for aerial forces. This video highlights an aerial refueling of the E-3. Credit:380th Air Expeditionary Wing:7/7/14
2014-09-03 By Julien Canin Germany has formally announced that they will support the Kurdish fighters, the Peshmergas, against the terrorist organization of Islamic State (ISIS), by sending weapons and providing training as well. Although the decision was known since the August 20th‘s statement of the German Defense Minister Ursula von…
