Our boy Greg Grant has a great piece on a presentation given by Steven Biddle and T.X. Hammes on the future of warfare over at DoD Buzz. I think it’s a good companion piece to the interview we just did with Dakota Wood at CSBA and also dovetails nicely with Greg’s previous piece on proposals […]
February 2009
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Concerns are mounting at European defense companies that the global economic downturn will drive down military spending. Although such cuts by major European nations have not yet emerged, there are signs among smaller states that budgets will be affected. Croatia has deferred its fighter competition, […]
Here’s the interview with Dakota Wood, senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments on VH-71, EFV, MV-22, JSF, Seabasing and distributed operations. Enjoy… – Christian
You all know by now that Sen. John McCain raised the issue of the VH-71 Kestrel helicopter program — the so-called “Marine One” buy — at the “fiscal summit” yesterday at the White House. Defense Tech has been on the story for a while but had a hard time getting details on it (sensing the […]
Our boy Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal has a breaking piece on a new alliance between insurgent groups and al Qaeda in Pakistan. This occurs of course as the US begins it’s mini-“surge” of forces into Afghanistan (which I guarantee you won’t last more than a year) and the recent “treaty” between Pak […]
