2014-01-11 Case 1: The Role of COIN Air Forces in Shaping Partnership Possibilities In the debate over the acquisition of the Light Attack Aircraft for the Afghan forces, a key opportunity to shape a 21st century option may be missed. A light attack aircraft, like the Super Tucano, when combined with…
01/10/2014: A KC-130J Super Hercules refuels three F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighters and two AV-8B Harriers during a training exercise while flying over Southern California Aug. 27, 2013. Credit:Marine Corps Air Station Miramar / 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing:8/27/13
2014-01-11 By Harald Malmgren During 2013 the Eurozone financial crisis seems to have dissipated. Optimistic words spoken by high level Eurocrats asserted that the EZ economy had turned the corner and was gradually recovering, with 1.0% GDP growth likely in 2014. ECB President Draghi said repeatedly that the ECB “would do…
2014-01-10 By Robbin Laird, Ed Timperlake and Murielle Delaporte As the United States faces the future and needs to come to terms with the past decade, what will be its military strategy? The answer to this question is not likely to come in briefing slides but in shaping concrete steps towards…
2014-01-10 The KC-130Js first arrived in the Pacific with the 1st Marine Air Wing in 2007. In 6 short years, the aircraft is enabling the USMC to provide long range assault support to the Ospreys and to support the shift to distributed operations in the Pacific. In our forthcoming interview…
2014-01-09 By Robbin Laird Japanese national security strategy is in evolution. In the most recent national security strategy, the Japanese government highlighted its latest iteration of what they called earlier “dynamic defense.” In an earlier piece, I wrote about the Japanese defense white paper of 2012 and highlighted the following:…
01/08/2014: Marines and sailors with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response load an MV-22B Osprey for helicopter rope suspension training at Morón Air Base, Spain, Dec. 6, 2013 and December 17, 2013. The latter was during a visit of Second Line of Defense to SP-MAGTF in Spain. SP-MAGTF Crisis…
01/09/2014: Second Line of Defense’s Murielle Delaporte visited the SP-MAGTF Crisis Response in Morón Air Base, Spain a few days prior to their mission to South Sudan to extract US embassy personnel. The SP-MAGTF Crisis Response was formed over an 8-month period and first deployed to Europe for temporary basing…
