Air Force – A look at the US Air Forces current plans for unmanned aerial vehicles???In just a few years, USAF will have more than 200 armed Predators and Reapers on hand, with lots more to come.
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Category Archives: AirWarfare
Air Warfare – The JDAM Revolution
Air Force – The low-cost, highly accurate Joint Direct Attack Munition has revolutionized bombing in just a few short years.
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Air Warfare – 9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes
Vanity Fair – How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD’s Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day-and the Pentagon’s apparent attempt to cover it up.
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Air Warfare – Toward A New Laser Era
Air Force – A look at the US Air Force’s current work towards airborne laser weapons.
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Air Warfare – Toward an Unmanned Bomber
Air Force – For the USAF, the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System could prove to be a large, loitering attack craft.
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US Marines – Marines On His Canvas: The Art of Charles H. Waterhouse
Leatherneck – With his prolific works of art, Colonel Charles H. Waterhouse, USMCR (Ret)óthe Corps’ first and only Artist in Residenceóhas, since Iwo Jima, continued to tell the Marine Corps’ story of courage and commitment.
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Air Warfare – Attack of the Drones
Wired – Flying bots rule the skies in combat zones around the globe. Now the battle is on between the joystick jockeys and the fighter jocks.
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Russian Navy – Russian Patrol Vessel, Frigate Projects Move Forward
Sea Power – The latest naval news from the navies of Russia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Iraq, and Portugal.
Geopolitics / Strategy – Grand Strategies for Dealing With Other Stats in the New, New World Order
Naval War College Review – Three broad strategies for maximizing the benefits the United States receives from state-to-state assistance programs are current todayóthe pivotal, buffer (or ìseamî), and failed-state strategies. Examination of the assumptions and conceptual approaches imbedded in them shows that none represents an adequate strategy for dealing with the security threats of the present day and age.
History – Midway: Sheer Luck or Better Doctrine?
Naval War College Review – The American and Japanese navies in the interwar years both acknowledged the transformative nature of the aircraft carrier, but they made strikingly different choices in implementing that naval revolution. The contrasting carrier doctrines and force structures these choices produced were tested decisively at Midway, in ways that speak to the nature of military technological innovation.
Air Warfare – U.S. Drones Crowd Iraq's Skies to Fight Insurgents
New York Times – An overview of unmanned aerial vehicle operations underway in Iraq.
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