At a New America sponsored discussion yesterday on IEDs in Afghanistan, retired general Montgomery Meigs, chief of the Pentagon’s counter IED task force during the ugliest years in Iraq, gave credit for the big turnaround there in 2007 to two unsung generals: John Abizaid and George Casey. He said one of the big reasons IED […]
From the monthly archives:
April 2010
Former Marine and current adviser to the navy department Frank Hoffman, who I believe is doing some of the most forward thinking on doctrine and strategy, spoke at the Army War College strategy conference I attended last week. He talked about war’s evolving character and how American military culture can be a “distorting prism” on […]
Via Steeljaw Scribe, comes this open-source examination of Russia’s 5th gen fighter, the Sukhoi built PAK FA (which may now go by Su-50), put together by two analysts from the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). The PAK FA’s maiden flight was on 29 January; it isn’t expected to enter Russian service until 2015. The brief […]
Yesterday, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Defense Secretary Robert Gates may have revealed the existence of a new weapon in America’s arsenal, a conventionally-armed ICBM. It was thought development and deployment of conventionally tipped ICBMs was still years away; a prototype is scheduled for a test flight next month. Responding to a question from NBC’s […]
By Kevin Coleman Defense Tech Chief Cyber War Correspondent The Indian Military’s Computer Emergency Response Team issue a cyber alert to government organizations and prominent corporations in India warning them of the possibility that they may be the targets of large-scale cyber attacks. The report went as far as to state that the Indian Army […]
