The Navy held a conference call with reporters today to shoot down any rumors that it’s going soft on the carrier version (F-35C) of the Joint Strike Fighter in favor of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The Navy intends to buy 124 Super Hornets in a multiyear purchase plan between FY 2010–2013, for a grand total […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has nominated Iraq commander Gen. Ray Odierno to be the next commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command. An interesting choice; a very coalition building position. So, now where does Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis go? Commandant of the Marine Corps? Here you can find further speculation on generals and admirals, and […]
Interesting article in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post about a group of retired U.S. officers, led by former JCS vice chair Adm. Bill Owens, who have set up the “Sanya Initiative”: an effort to promote back-channel communications, and between retired U.S. and Chinese officers. Derisively labeled “panda huggers” by some in the military industrial […]
Our own Christian Lowe is embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan through June 1 and sends us this dispatch from FOB Sharana in eastern Afghanistan. By Christian Lowe FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan — In one of the most conspicuous shifts in policy since the war in Afghanistan began, local Army commanders have ordered that […]
We’ll be producing a long-form video once we return CONUS, but until then we wanted to give you a little taste of what we’ve been doing during our embed with ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Here’s the insert portion of an air assault we did against the village of Ateh Khanek, a suspected Taliban supply station […]
