10/19/2011 by Ed Timperlake We’ve written in these pages before about the rigors and risks of operating in the Arctic. https://www.sldinfo.com/perspective-from-moscow-the-international-arctic-forum-moscow/ https://www.sldinfo.com/operating-in-the-arctic-resourcing-for-the-21st-century/ https://www.sldinfo.com/the-uscg-in-the-pacific/ https://www.sldinfo.com/ending-reluctance/ [caption id="attachment_25213" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A ski equipped LC-130 Hercules finishes final preparation before leaving New York and make the 11.000 mile journey to Antarctica in support…
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…
09/27/2011 As the United States eventually gets around to looking at the world, a new strategy as well as a new approach to using the tools available to the national command authority will be necessary. Currently, the US is in strategic free fall. The Iraq engagement is ending, the Afghan…
9/15/2011 by Robbin Laird The Second Line of Defense team is starting a series, which we will call the strategic whiteboard. By leveraging the new systems being designed and built today, and building upon the capabilities of these new systems, America can have a better defense at less cost. This…
Service Life Extension Program (SLEP): Investing in Going Backwards By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the USAF 08/02/2011 - Pressure is growing on the DoD budget. Perhaps 80 billion, 400 billion or whatever on top of the one hundred billion in savings that has been demanded by the outgoing…
An Interview with Joel Malone F-35As at Edwards AFB June 2011 (Credit: Lockheed Martin) 07/25/2011 - The shift from the F-16 to the F-35A for the USAF will provide significant capability to improve operational performance and operational tempo. In an interview with Joel Malone, the shift was discussed and analyzed.…
Or, How to Build the Honeycomb 07/19/2011 - The F-22 and F-35 have sophisticated sensors and self defense capabilities, which, in and of themselves, when combined with stealth enable these aircraft to become true game changers. But in and of themselves is not where the real game changing capability comes…
This is the 10th Special Report on Power projection. The TACC provides a unique Command and Control capability which operates the U.S. tanker, airlift and inter-theater medical evacuation fleet worldwide. It is a unique asset. It is a core asset which underwrites U.S. joint capabilities and coalition operations worldwide. It…
