View Larger Map Wow, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, the Pentagon’s bastion in the Horn of Africa, has grown like crazy. While we’ve all heard it was expanding, I hadn’t seen anything to give a sense of how massive its growth has been, until now. I hadn’t look at Google Maps satellite pics of the base in […]
Marine Corps
Here are some slides from Center For Strategic and Budgetary Assessments presentation this morning that illustrate the seven major trends that the think-tank envisions American ground forces will encounter on battlefields for the next 30 years or so. These trends, argues CSBA, should be taken into account when the Pentagon selects the vehicles that will […]
So the Marine Corps’ KC-130J Harvest Hawk has been around for a little while now. As you know, Harvest Hawks are KC-130J tankers equipped with plug and play air to ground missile and sensor systems allowing them to pinch hit as gunships for Marines on the ground, and they’ve been doing plenty of shooting in […]
Here’s a sight I bet you weren’t expecting. The image above shows U.S. Marine Corps AV-8 Harriers operating off a big deck aircraft carrier. The pic was taken in the 1970s when the Marines were testing out the jump jets aboard the Midway class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, a ship that was commissioned […]
Happy budget day! Yup, the Pentagon’s 2013 budget request officially drops today and according to Reuters, it’s going to ask for $187.8 billion to buy planes and ships while chopping cash for ground vehicles. As we’ve said before, in the 2013 budget, strategic weapons are winning the funding game in the second decade of the 21st […]
