Buying new F-15X fighters for the US Air Force is Unsolicited and Unwise
Although President Calvin Coolidge was not an expert on air power, his famous quote, “Nothing in…
Read More »Future of War: AugoStrat Awakenings: Part 2
We are pleased to welcome back Mick Ryan with the second instalment of his short story AugoStrat…
Read More »F-35Bs at Sea
F-35B Lightning IIs with Medium Marine Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced) conduct flight operations carrying Guided Bomb…
Read More »Japanese Defense Modernization: Shaping a Way Ahead
Recently, Lt. General (Retired) Deptula was in Japan. He wrote this upon his return from that…
Read More »Fourteen Days In Haiti: A USMC Perspective On the Osprey Impact, 2010
10/17/2010 Late August 2010, Second Line of Defense met with pilots, and maintainers of the Osprey…
Read More »From the A380 to the FCAS
Richard Aboulafia was a a major critic of Airbus launching the A380 from the outset. He…
Read More »The Spy and the Traitor: The Gordievsky Affair
Recently I read the 2018 book written by Ben Macintyre about the Gordievsky Affair or as…
Read More »The Evolution of Fuel Support In Coalition Operation : a Burdensharing Success Story
At a time of transatlantic fingerpointing and GDP percentage endless discussions, it is soothing to focus…
Read More »A Collective Approach to Repairing America’s Immigration System
A reasonable plan would pair cost-effective border security measures and regional cooperation with robust enforcement that…
Read More »MBDA and FCAS: The Brexit Challenge
Paris – MBDA is in talks with Airbus and Dassault Aviation in the concept study for the…
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