Presidential Visit to Australia: A Strategic Opportunity for Darwin and Australia?

12/02/2011
11/16/2011 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake President Obama is focusing on the Pacific this week and he will go to Australia.  The President is scheduled to visit with the Australian Prime Minister, and Darwin, a port city, in the Northern Territories.  Darwin is the home of many things; among…

Extending the Honeycomb: Transformation Re-visited

11/10/2011
11/10/2011 By Michael Wynne If one recalls the history of the transformation movement, it became embraced by then candidate Bush in his speech at the Citadel and then he followed through on the speech as president. The calls for a revolution in military affairs now became defense transformation. In all…

Pacific Strategy XV: Basing the Honeycomb

10/28/2011
10/27/2011 - A key element of understanding a scalable presence strategy is basing.  Basing of the force in the Pacific is a function of several key capabilities: Sebasing; Partners and Allies Connected Capabilities; The F-35 and Re-crafting Land Basing Presence is rooted in basing; scalability is inherently doable because of…

Shaping a Pacific Strategy IV

10/11/2011
10/11/2011 - The approach we are building is from the ground up – quite literally.  The US to protect its economic interests and sovereignty needs to deploy forward throughout the Pacific. We started with the USCG and its everyday forward deployments in the North and South Pacific.  And our interview…

Naval Aviation: The Next 100 years

10/04/2011
10/04/2011 By:Ed Timperlake (Yuma, Az) Today, October 3, 2011 was the first day of the next 100 years for the Navy Marine team in the air and on the sea. The F-35 Joint Program Office just announced the future. ABOARD USS WASP, At sea – The Navy and Marine Corps Team made…

Remembering the Lessons of Billy Mitchell

09/03/2011
09/03/2011 by Robbin Laird In a recent piece, Ed Timperlake discussed the strategic significance of moving on from older paradigms to ensure US national security.  He argued that One of the great plot devices in suspense and horror movies is the surprise ending, just name the threat; zombies, aliens, vampires…

Russian Air Power on Display: The T-50

08/20/2011
08/20/2011: Russian Air Power on Display: The T-50 By Richard Weitz [slidepress gallery='russian-air-power-on-display'] Photo Credit:  RussianPlanes.net Russia’s International Aviation & Space Salon (MAKS-2011) air show, which is being held at Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow from August 16-21, will not soon rival Paris, but the event, along with the Russian public commentary…

Re-Norming the Navy Battle Fleet: Supportable Defense Within a Manageable Budget

08/07/2011
By the Honorable Ed Timperlake [slidepress gallery='navy-battle-fleet'] 08/07/2011 - The air fleet of an enemy will never get within striking distance of our coast as long as our aircraft carriers are able to carry the preponderance of air power to sea. —   Real Admiral W. A. Moffet, Chief of the…