We’re running a story on Military.com this afternoon that reveals the next big target for Marines will be the town of Marjah, in Helmand province. Both CJCS and top Marine general in the region Nicholson are quoted as saying Marjah is in their sights. “We’re going to go in big,” Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, […]
From the monthly archives:
January 2010
I realize this video is making the rounds, but there’s some context to it worth discussing. The F-35B STOVL test plane down at Pax has been busy since the new year, spooling up its lift fan and thrusting its nozzle in near-hover tests that engage the one of the most complex propulsion systems since the […]
I wasn’t able to jump on this yesterday due to some Military.com commitments, but there was an interesting piece in the New York Times about the huge amount of UAV data pouring into military hard drives — so much that the USAF, for example, is drowning in it. It got me to thinking that the […]
Last night’s ABC national news had some really well done segments on current operations in Afghanistan. I guess the network wanted to introduce Diane Sawyer as their new nightly news anchor with a high profile embed…and they sure got what they asked for. Sawyer had some revealing interviews with Gen. McChrystal, who answered her forthright […]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: For all you international arms deal buffs, I thought I’d include this post from our friends at Aviation Week who provide Military.com with a story per day to titillate DT readers. Robert Wall (who wrote this story) is an old friend of mine from the defense industry coverage beat and one of the best sourced […]
