A quick head’s up here. My friend Paul Solman, the economics correspondent for PBS’s News Hour show, just broadcast his package on the body armor procurement controversy. While he doesn’t mention Defense Tech by name, he did afford us a screen shot and pulled documents from my previous work on the story with Marine Corps […]
September 2007
The commander of U.S. Air Force assets in the Pacific said Tuesday hed like to see high-altitude, long-endurance surveillance drones like the RQ-4 Global Hawk perform non-military missions to protect commerce in the region. Gen. Paul Hester told a gathering at the Air and Space conference in Washington hes been in discussions with regional commanders […]
Well, the story of the Israeli incursion into Syria is beginning to get some granularity. It now appears that Israeli commandos may have been involved as well. What a totally gutsy move. And, if true, it also shows that Israel took the target seriously enough to send in ground forces. Our friends at Stratfor passed […]
First USS Iowa. Then high school ROTC. Then the Blue Angels. Now the US Marine Corp. How much more dis’in can the US Military take from the city and ‘burbs by the bay? A new advertising campaign by the Marine Corp has a their Silent Drill Team (an absolutely amazing display of precision and discipline) […]
The Air Force may have adopted a doctrine on irregular warfare — combating insurgents and guerrillas while trying to win the hearts and minds of a local population — but it’s not about to abandon the advantages of airpower and sophisticated weaponry in the name of “fighting fair.” Maj. Gen. Allen Peck, commander of the […]
