- American Conservative – William S. Lind on how the Taliban mastered the operational art of modern war
Monthly Archives:: November 2012
US Navy – Whidbey’s Prowlers, Growlers, … and Airmen
- Air Force – Electronic attack, the Air Force’s orphan mission, is regaining prominence.
Miscellaneous – General Failure
- The Atlantic – Looking back on the troubled wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many observers are content to lay blame on the Bush administration. But inept leadership by American generals was also responsible for the failure of those wars. A culture of mediocrity has taken hold within the Army’s leadership rank—if it is not [...]
US Navy – US aircraft carrier strikeforce readies in case of war with Iran
- Daily Telegraph – When the aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis returns to the placid blue waters of the Gulf with her strike force of 70 jets in the next few days, she will be ready for action off the coast of Iran.
Chinese Navy – China lands J-15 jet on Liaoning aircraft carrier
- BBC – A Chinese-made fighter jet lands on Beijing’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, officials say, bolstering China’s military capacity in territorial disputes.
US Navy – Air-Sea Battle: Clearing the fog
- Armed Forces Journal – The goal of Air Sea Battle is to ensure all forces can get to the fight.
Air Warfare – How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom
- Wired – An interesting look at the contributions amateurs are making to the field of unmanned aerial vehicles.
US Navy – Frigate makes $25M in drug busts on final journey
- San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Curts’ final deployment is turning out to be an historic one for the San Diego-based frigate, with its crew having made about $25 million in drug busts during operations in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
US Navy – U.S. Navy Sticks To Bold Course With Zumwalt Destroyer
- Aviation Week – Gulf of Mexico residents see all types of ships and barges go by Mississippi’s Little Biloxi River Bridge. The region, after all, is a womb for warships and a transit artery for maritime goods of all types. But recently one barge slipped past the bridge crowned by a cargo never witnessed [...]
US Navy – US Navy's transition from Prowlers to Growlers proceeding smoothly
- Flight International – The second day of our Boeing media trip to the Pacific Northwest found our motley band of defense reporters at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, near Oak Harbor, Washington.
Royal Navy – Submarine corrosion caused by cost-cutting, says leaked MoD memo
- The Guardian – Senior Ministry of Defence analyst says corrosion on new fleet of hunter-killer submarines is ’cause for major concern’.
US Navy – Navy's Move To Growler 70% Complete; Build-Up Reflects Stealth Doubts
- AOL Defense – “Every two weeks, we get another Growler,” Cmdr. Christopher Middleton said at the Navy’s electronic warfare hub here. The Navy target is to buy 114 EA-18G Growler aircraft. And it’s those Growler aircraft that will be the cutting edge of future Naval strikes against future “anti-access area denial” defenses like those [...]
Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force – Watching Japan and China square off in East China Sea
- BBC – Who do the Senkaku or Diaoyu Islands belong to? The short answer is I don’t know.
US Navy – Can Navy Afford Next-Gen DDG-51 Destroyer, Packard Award Or Not?
- AOL Defense – It’s not a Nobel Prize, but the Packard Award matters in the big-dollar world of defense procurement. Last week, utterly overshadowed by elections, the Department of Defense awarded the Packard to the Navy’s DDG-51 destroyer, the sleek grey mainstay of the fleet.
US Navy – USN Chief: Partners Needed for Missile Patrols
- Defense News – Preparations are continuing to base four U.S. Navy destroyers in Rota, Spain, beginning in fiscal 2014 — a move that will allow the ships to provide a near-continuous ballistic-missile defense (BMD) shield for Europe. And while the U.S. remains the only nation so far able to field a sea-based BMD system, [...]
US Navy – Robots replace costly US Navy mine-clearance dolphins
- BBC – After more than 50 years of loyal service, the US Navy tells BBC Future it is ready to replace its pods of highly trained sea mammals with cheaper robots.
Piracy – Hung, drawn and quartered
- The Economist – Better deterrents are putting the Somali pirates’ business under strain.
Geopolitics – Open Seas
- Foreign Policy – The Arctic is the Mediterranean of the 21st century.
Chinese Navy – China submarines to soon carry nukes, draft U.S. report says
- Reuters – China appears to be within two years of deploying submarine-launched nuclear weapons, adding a new leg to its nuclear arsenal that should lead to arms-reduction talks, a draft report by a congressionally mandated U.S. commission says.
Pakistani Navy – Pakistani Navy ship to participate in naval exercise in Turkey
- Daily Times – Pakistan Navy (PN) ship ‘PNS Shamsheer’ will be visiting Aksaz Naval Base Marmaris and Antalya harbour from November 5 to 14 and will participate in joint exercise ‘Mavi Baline-12’ with the Turkish Navy. Pakistan Navy P3C-Orion aircraft will also participate in the exercise from Dalaman.
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