Want to see a service secretary slap around the defense industry? I’ve been covering defense for a little while now and I’ve never seen a military official dole out the very public ass chewing to their industry partners like this one from Air Force Chief Gen. Norton Schwartz. Schwartz is responding to a question from […]
From the monthly archives:
February 2010
My colleague Christian Lowe over at Kit Up has a story about Marine Ospreys inserting Force Recon Marines and Afghan troops in blocking positions in southern Afghanistan to cut off Taliban escape routes and meet up with advancing ground elements. It marks one of the first operational uses of the Osprey in the Marja offensive, […]
The Ganjgal 15–6 investigation levels some pretty heavy blame on the battalion command for being absent during the key moments of an ambush of Army and Marine trainers that left five Americans and eight Afghan soldiers dead. Officers in the battalion TOC failed to “competently track the battle and synchronize efforts” to provide fire support […]
The results of the Cyber Shockwave simulation that the Bipartisan Policy Center conducted earlier this week came as no SHOCK to most security professionals that have really been involved in analysis of cyber warfare, cyber terrorism and cyber crime. This event has brought the badly needed attention this threat needs and deserves. Many are sitting […]
Here is the memo from SecDef Robert Gates to CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus agreeing to a requested name change from “Operation Iraqi Freedom” to “Operation New Dawn” on 1 September 2010 to reflect the change in mission there. – Greg
