1 day ago ... As many of you know, Rep. J Randy Forbes was named the next Chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee on the ...
PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 22, 2013) An MH-60R Seahawk assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 flies in front of the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1). This is the first fleet MH-60R to operate with a Right Hand Extended Pylon (RHEP) and a full compliment of eight AGM...
Following the release of the Maritime Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, the Navy almost immediately tied budgets to strategy when John Morgan, as part of telling the story of 21st Century Seapower, claimed every budget is a strategy. Six years later under CNO Roughead and now CNO Gr...
The Benghazi hearings are today, and I'll be paying attention. I'm not sure yet if today will turn out to be anything other than a political circus. Time will tell. Today we are going to learn who is serious and who is a clown. There will be opportunities for both Democrats and Republ...
The public-relations effort was designed not only to send a message to North Korea, but also to assure a hawkish new government in South Korea that it had full U.S. backing and there was no need for it to respond militarily to the North's provocations. U.S. intelligence agencies asses...
National Defense Magazine blog has what appears to me to be the most insightful tidbits of information to date on the Navy perspective of the F-35C . At the March 12 Credit Suisse/McAleese defense programs conference in Washington, D.C. Air Force LT. General Christopher C. Bogdan , pr...
Calls for U.S. intrusion in the Syrian civil war seem to grow louder each day, especially from people in positions of authority within the polity. This talk of no fly zones, providing lethal aid to rebels, etc. must be realized for what it is - a call for a U.S.-sponsored regime chang...
I have intentionally taken a few weeks to think about the recent article by Chris Cavas in Defense News on the memo widely discussed in the media by Vice Admiral Tom Copeman, Commander Naval Surface Forces . The article outlines a lot of different areas for discussion, everything from...
Modern post-war drawdowns have several repeatable features. Among them: first, critics wonder aloud why we need two land armies--usually looking to minimize in some way the Marine Corps. Second, USMC boosters wage a furious "waving the bloody shirt from Guadalcanal" effort to justify ...
