02/13/2013: The USS Blue Ridge is one of two special USN flagships. As Col. Weisz noted about the Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney: Both the BLUE RIDGE and MOUNT WHITNEY offer a great capability for enabling and supporting distributed operations. In fact, I don’t know of any other ship in…
2013-02-13 Major challenges are provided to the modern state by trans-national forces, among the most powerful of which is trans-national crime. http://sldinfo.wpstage.net/emerging-alliances-for-the-21st-century-part-vii/ The bad guys can innovate more rapidly with the use of modern technology, can the states which acquire technology more slowly, and tend to be more hierarchical than a…
02/12/2013: The aircrew of an Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter return after locating and rescuing a boater that had run aground Dec. 14, 2012, near Port Arthur, Texas. A 33-year-old man was rescued by a Coast Guard aircrew when his boat ran aground, Friday, approximately 7 miles southeast of…
2013-02-11 Maj. Gen. Christopher S. Owens visited with service members on Wing One Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 10 before the start of exercise Cobra Gold 2013. CG 13, in its 32nd iteration, is designed to advance regional security and ensure effective response to…
2013-02-11 According to a Lockheed Martin Press Release: EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Feb 11, 2013 [caption id="attachment_50815" align="alignnone" width="300"]Maj Ryan 'Gunner' Reinhardt flight testing the F-35A at Edwards AFB. Credit Photo: Lockheed Martin [/caption] An F-35A Lightning II conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, known as AF-1, completed its final…
2013-02-11 Unfortunately, the debate about the littoral combat ship, and the confusion of building a fairly limited ship with disruptive change, has obscured the real transformation at sea. The dynamics of change affecting the seabase are truly significant. The ARG-MEU is being transformed into an expeditionary strike group. With the addition…
02/11/2013: The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Mark Welsh holds an all-call with Airmen at Kandahar Airfield, introduces new CMSAF Jim Cody, and discusses the future of the Air Force. Credit:American Forces Network Afghanistan:2/4/13
2013-02-10 by Richard Weitz This 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War provides an opportunity to assess the progress the Obama administration has achieved during its first term in seeking to deepen U.S. security ties with Vietnam. Of the “six key lines of action” that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton…
