In a simply phenominal piece today in the New York Times, James Dao perfectly distills the essence of junior command — the pressures and weight of decisions that have to be made — and the outsized influence those decisions have on national policy (and personal development). I’ve spent at least half of my decade in […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2010
Apparently, Air Force accident investigators weren’t even aware that there was a flight data recorder aboard the CV-22 that crashed in Afghanistan last April. This pretty big accidental oversight may be partially to blame for the conflicting reports that the crash may or may not have been caused by a combination of engine power loss and pilot […]
Check out this wild image posted on China Defense Blog of the PLA’s idea of … naval artillery? Pretty crazy, huh? Can anyone make out what type of missile is being launched in the upper left portion of the picture? Heck, is the image even real?
By Kevin Coleman – Defense Tech Cyber Warfare Correspondent In October of 2010 cyber attacks were assessed to be one of the most serious threats to Britain’s national security by the British government. In stark contrast, the vast majority of private British firms are confident they are protected. There have been harsh comments about the British firms’ […]
Last month we reported that the Marine Corps was set to send over a company of M1 Abrams tanks to Helmand to help in its fight against Taliban insurgents there. In an interview about a week ago with the former commander of RCT-7 in Afghanistan, we got another look at how the Marines plan to […]
