The Air Forces chief of staff was careful to withhold his professional military advice until Defense Secretary Robert Gates gets it, but Gen. Norton Schwartz told reporters this morning that he would not dispute comments by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs late last year that the service would get an additional 60 F-22s, for […]
From the monthly archives:
February 2009
We posted a story this morning about a team of engineering students at my alma mater who are designing new body armor inserts. According to the story in the Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch, the three students — one of whom is an Army National Guardsman — are testing new plates that can absorb up to […]
Early in February, the Intelligence Community released its “Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence” for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In it, the IC stated that our nation’s information infrastructure — that includes the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers in critical industries — are increasingly being […]
Here’s a fascinating story from a new content sharing partner with Military.com. GlobalPost.com says its mission is to restore in-depth foreign reporting to the news cycle. With tight budgets in every corner of the media industry, paying for correspondents to live and work throughout the world is too expensive. But GlobalPost hopes to reverse that […]
Have a listen to our quick fire “Boots on the Ground” episode with The Long War Journal’s Bill Roggio analyzing the attacks by Taliban/al Qaeda militants on government buildings in Kabul yesterday. – Christian
