Here’s a story I wrote up for DOD Buzz today: As Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this month at the Eisenhower Luncheon, “it’s a simple matter of math.” While it would be the prudent way to go to keep the force structure at current levels, being that we are a nation in a pair […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
By Kevin Coleman Defense Tech Cyber War Correspondent For some time now the CIA has been making investments in technology focused on defensive systems to prevent cyber threats, as well as offensive capabilities to launch cyber attacks and collect cyber intelligence. This is one of the CIA’s top three priorities within their current strategic plan […]
Yesterday, perimeter guards and Apache gunships at Bagram, the sprawling U.S. base about an hour’s drive north of Kabul, repelled a Taliban “complex attack,” the military’s euphemism for a guerrilla combined arms attack, killing some 20 insurgents in the process. Military sources tell Defense Tech the Bagram attack, which killed a U.S. contractor and wounded […]
Our own Christian Lowe is embedded with 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry in Paktika province, eastern Afghanistan. His account illustrates the very restrictive rules of engagement troops are currently operating under that are intended to minimize civilian casualties. Notice in the story that every single mortar round fired requires higher authorization. Not air strikes, mortar rounds. […]
Back in April 2009, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates upended the program of record, he announced that construction of the new Ford (CVN-78) class carriers would be slowed to one carrier every five years. His reasoning: it would put carrier construction on “a more fiscally sustainable path.” Naval analyst extraordinaire Ron O’Rourke explains how it […]
