In recent years the topic of situational awareness (SA) has received increased attention given the complex environments that our militaries and intelligence services operate. SA is the field of study concerned with perception of the surroundings and derivative implications critical to decision makers in complex, dynamic areas such as military command and security. Given the […]
From the monthly archives:
January 2010
The Marine Corps is shipping out the Bataan and two landing ship docks (the Carter Hall and McHenry) to help out in Haiti. About 2,000 Marines from the 22 MEU (which was on leave after a CENTCOM pump) are heading down there with a bunch of gear. Here’s a partial list: 8 CH-53E Super […]
Our boy Colin Clark at DoD Buzz participated in an interview this morning with the vice commander of the Air Force’s 480th ISR wing at Langley AFB. Looks like they’re spooling up the Soviet missile snooping U-2 for some surveillance flights over Haiti. No, they’re not looking for Hugo Chavez’s secret stash of SS-3s. Instead the […]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. A British Conservative government would revisit Royal Air Force transport and fighter aircraft basing plans — and intended closures — including a move to consolidate all U.K. fixed-wing airlift at one hub. Gerald Howarth, the shadow defense minister, says reconsideration of the present government’s decision […]
Earlier this week Google announced that they had uncovered a very sophisticated and highly targeted attack that was traced and found to have originated in China. The mid-December attack specifically targeted Google accounts that were used by so-called human activists. Reports have stated that the email account address and the subject line of the emails […]
