07/30/2014: Forty-two ships and submarines representing 15 international partner nations steam in a close formation during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, 49 ships and six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to August 1, in and around…
2014-07-30 By Oscar Nkala French defense minister Yves Le Drian says his country will in early August deploy more than 3 000 soldiers to start military operations under its broadened trans-Sahel counter-terrorism initiative which is set to operate from a string of bases in Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Mali and…
2014-07-22 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Rather than looking into Putin’s soul and figuring out our next step in the Ukrainian crisis, it would be better to look carefully at the emergence of the next phase of 21st century warfare. War is always with us; but it mutates over…
2014-07-28 By Robbin Laird During my visit to 2nd Marine Air Wing in June 2014, I had a chance to meet with several of the members of the VMGR-252 squadron. [caption id="attachment_67857" align="alignnone" width="232"] Major Montgomery. Credit Photo: Second Line of Defense[/caption] In this interview, Major Mark Montgomery, a KC-130J…
2014-07-28 In a piece published in Stars and Stripes on July 27, 2014, Brigadier General "Stick" Rudder provides his perspective on the MV-22 in the Pacific. The MV-22B Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, has operated in the Asia-Pacific theater for nearly two years,…
07/27/2014: KC-135 Stratotanker deployed with the 48th Air Expeditionary Group for Icelandic Air Policing refueling an F-15C Eagle. Credit: Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa:5/28/14
07/25/2014: USS ANTIETAM (CG 54) Sailors practice underway replenishment with Saberhawks (HSM-77) while conducting operations with the George Washington Carrier Strike Group off the coast of southern Japan. Credit:Navy Public Affairs Support Element Japan:5/25/14
07/25/2014: Forces from Poland, Canada and The United States participated in a combined exercise to secure and hold an airfield in Drawskow-Pomorskie, Poland on July 17. Credit:U.S. Army Europe:7/7/14
