– Defense Technology International – The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX strike fighter, the EA-18G Growler, an unmanned combat aircraft (currently exemplified by two X-47B test platforms) and a nascent arsenal of specialized air-launched standoff weapons are all part of a new emphasis on exploiting the electro-magnetic spectrum.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Miscellaneous – The Desert One Debacle
– The Atlantic – Mark Bowden writes that in April 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent the Army’s Delta Force to bring back fifty-three American citizens held hostage in Iran. Everything went wrong. The fireball in the Iranian desert took the Carter presidency with it.
Royal Navy – Nowhere To Run
– Defense Technology International – Bill Sweetman describes how if Scotland becomes independent, there may be no place to base the UK’s ballistic missile submarine force.
Information Warfare – People Power 2.0
– Technology Review – How civilians helped win the Libyan information war.
US Marines – Marines prepare to open combat jobs to women
– San Diego Union Tribune – The Marine Corps will begin assigning women to newly opened combat jobs this year, conduct research on their physical capabilities, and in the most striking move, open the infantry officer training course to them, the commandant said in a message to all Marines Monday.
US Marines – U.S. comes to agreement with Japan to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa
– Washington Post – The U.S. and Japanese governments said Thursday that they will move about 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, in a bid to remove a persistent irritant in the relationship between the two allies.
Chinese Navy – Shoal mates
– The Economist – America’s navy riles China in its backyard
Chinese Navy – How Effective Will China’s Carrier-Based Fighters Be?
– DefenseTech – An exceprt from an analysis of what the J-15 will mean for China’s neighbors written last sumer by DefenseTech’s go to China guru Andrew Erickson.
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