
01/26/2012 – So how will our potential adversaries react to the new MEU? I think they’re going to look for seams and work on upgrading their defenses. What we need to do? Think deeply about the implications of what capabilities we are bringing to the MEU ARG, to the Corps, and figuring out how to maximize the potential advantages. Questions I’ve been pondering lately: how do we tie the MEU ACE, the ARG into a larger defense network, the missile cruisers, the carriers, the ships organic defense systems. So how do you tie in with your missile cruisers? How do you tie in with the defense subsystems on board that ship to protect that ship or the ARG et large? How do you protect the tilt rotor airplanes and the rotary wing airplanes that are a part of the MEU, a larger MAGTF, or part of a joint force – or more importantly the infantry in a future contested battlefield? ...
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01/25/2012 – Richard Weitz looks at the possibility of Kazakhstan as a host for nuclear fuel banks. Kazakh ambitions in the international market are extensive. The government and nuclear industry would like to establish a full-fledged “nuclear fuel service center” that, in addition to serving as a uranium fuel bank, could reprocess the spent fuel from nuclear reactors to recycle it as plutonium while storing the residual nuclear waste. The center could also provide nuclear reactors and other nuclear energy technologies. But Kazakhstan needs to address certain problems before the international community can support establishing a multinational uranium fuel bank on its territory. ...
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01/25/2012 – With the end of the wars in Iraq and Libya, and the impending U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States can now adjust its force posture and other resources to better address new geographic (China rather than Iraq) and functional (anti-access rather than transnational terrorism) challenges.
The United States will therefore realign military resources to address these concerns. This shift in geographic focus will also require the U.S. military to strengthen capabilities for missions other than counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, especially global deployment and insertion capabilities.
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01/23/2012 – In this piece, Colonel Bradley Weisz, Deputy Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group TWO discusses preparation for the Bold Alligator 2012 exercise and the way forward for the sea-basing capabilities of the USN-USMC team.
"The aviation combat element obviously allows the supply ships to be used differently. We can sustain ourselves, resupply ourselves, and conduct an operation as well as any land based capability, especially when you compare it to what recently took place in Libya, how close the Harriers were to Libya, how effective they were, it’s unbelievable.
We can use the MV-22B to develop that logistic supply chain. In Libya, you had a Big Deck LHD sitting right off the coast. You had an MV-22B resupplying, sustaining it, and the sortie rate was 3 to 4 times what we would normally expect." ...
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01/23/2012 – "From the very beginning, the F-35 was designed with the intent that we would be able to build one a day, and deliver one a day..... The aircraft was ready to go put gas in it, load software in it, and fly it, and that is different from with the more handcrafted F-22s that we knew we weren’t going to build, but a few hundreds of those. That was really designed for performance, and optimized for the performance of the aircraft after it was delivered. This one obviously has the performance characteristics in there, but we were really leaned towards the manufacturability, and affordability available to put out one a day." ...
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01/27/2012 What are the lessons learned today and for the future by the Bold Alligator 2012 exercise? Or re-thinking maneuver warfare generated from sea platforms. Read More >>
01/26/2012 Second Line of Defense discusses the Bold Alligator exercise with Col. Shorter, Lt. Col. Williams, and Lt. Col. Hermley. Read More >>
01/26/2012 Lieutenant Commander George Pastoorr is a Dutch Naval Officer with Expeditionary Strike Force 2 and the lead planner for Bold Alligator. Read More >>
01/26/2012 The credible projection of effective power requires more than rhetoric. Capabilities and capacity matter. Read More >>
01/26/2012 Ed Timperlake focuses on the role of the tail hook as a weapon system. Read More >>
01/25/2012 Richard Weitz looks at the logistics challenges supporting the Afghan mission. Read More >>
01/25/2012 Col. Tomassetti "Turbo" discusses turning the page on the F-35 force after the arrival of BF-6 and BF-8. Read More >>
01/23/2012 Harald Malmgren comments on the emergence of an Iran centric crisis and its potential significance. Read More >>
01/27/2012 The logistical ballet to support sea operations is highlighted in this slideshow. Read More >>
01/26/2012 IDGA's Summit focuses on the latest advancements in strategy, operations, and technology. Read More >>
01/26/2012 Italian Air Force Eurofighter in air-to-air refuelling mission ... Read More >>
01/26/2012 Aviation Week is hosting an event on DoD's future spending priorities and important technology to focus on. Read More >>
01/25/2012 We are publishing a USAF background paper currently circulating on the Hill. It validates everything we have written on Second Line of Defense for more than ... Read More >>
01/25/2012 Video: The 31st MEU’s Battalion Landing Team hone skills in helicopter assaults ... Read More >>
01/23/2012 An ‘Elephant Walk’ is a fundamental training element when preparing for Global Strike Missions. Read More >>
01/22/2012 Slideshow showing a glimpse of the arrival of the new F-35 aircraft to Eglin AFB. Read More >>
01/20/2012 First F-35 Night Flight The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, ... Read More >>
01/19/2012 A video which looks at USCG ops to open up a critical port. Read More >>
01/25/2012 – This month's video highlights the first F-35 flight night tests conducted in January 2012.Read More>>
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