We’ve had a lot of discussion at Defense Tech and across other Military.com properties about counterinsurgency and how COIN theory should be applied in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The echo chamber in DC and military centers of excellence are wallpapered with treatises from think tanks and other annointed 500-pound brains. As many of you […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
The Army announced today that it has begun the process of selecting from industry proposals for its Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program. The Army will award up to three contracts for preliminary designs of the new infantry fighting vehicle that will then enter the technology development phase by late fourth quarter FY 2010, according to […]
Yesterday, we wrote up RAND’s latest assessment of the PLA air forces that focused on modernization progress over the past decade and China’s development of a fighter production base built largely by reverse engineering Russian and some Israeli designs. Meanwhile, David Axe reports that there have been some pretty serious problems with new jets coming […]
Here are Mullah Mohammed Omar’s La’iha (laws) for those of you in the DT audience ready for a rewarding career in the Taliban: — MMO is the supreme leader of the Taliban, or “Emir al Mu’manin” (“Leader of the Faithful”). — Taliban will constructively engage tribal leaders and seek to offer support to the local […]
The congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission held a hearing today on Chinese airpower. RAND’s Roger Cliff provided an assessment of China’s air forces modernization over the past decade. There is no PLA “air force,” there are multiple air forces spread across the military, including air and naval aviation, ballistic missiles and surface-to-air missiles. […]
