SB>1 Defiant Takes Flight
WASHINGTON: Months behind schedule and more than a year behind archrival Bell, the Sikorsky-Boeing candidate to replace 2,000 Black Hawk helicopters took flight…
Read More »Acting Secretary of Defense Shanahan Should Not Channel Gates: Accelerate Not Reverse Airpower Modernization
It might be of use if the Acting Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) read his own National…
Read More »The Imperative for US Airpower Modernization
In 2006, a relatively obscure book caused a major stir among the U.S. Air Force leadership.…
Read More »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…
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