The Brazilians may finally be getting some decent aircraft for the Sao Paulo:The Government of Brazil has requested proposals from several foreign suppliers, including the United States, to provide the next generation fighter for the Brazilian Air Force. In this “FX-2” competition, the Government of...
Author: Robert Farley
John Boonstra, responding to Paul Johnson:What we don't know is if a successful Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would discredit the regime to the point that it would be.
Ezra, channeling Alec MacGillis: So too is the section where he quotes Donald Ritchie, the Senate's official historian, explaining that "the authors of the Constitution really thought the House would.
In addition to my duties at LGM, I will now periodically be blogging at Information Dissemination. The focus there will be more maritime oriented, and a bit more policy wonkish.
This dude's job kind of sucks. If you think you face an uphill challenge at work today, spare a thought for Farah Ahmed Omar, the man in charge of Somalia's.
In May 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in an effort to detach and seize several mountain provinces, as well as Trieste and portions of the Adriatic Coast. Since the.
I appreciate international society's need for mercenary companies. Developing military institutions is difficult and time consuming, and even though mercenaries are expensive, they can provide short term emergency relief. Mercenaries have been a part of the domestic and international scene since time immemorial, and they've...
This is an interesting list, but the concept doesn't strike me as quite right. From Wikipedia: It also refers to government or corporate project involving large numbers of people and.
Via Galrahn, it looks as if the Royal Navy is ditching plans to buy the F-35B (VSTOL variant), and instead buying the F-35C (carrier variant) and adding catapults to its.
A pair of Russia's old, loud nuclear attack boats patrolling off the Eastern seaboard is news? The Tu-95 flights off Alaska and the UK last year were so much more interesting... Galrahn suggests that the only "news" is that the USN decided to publicize its...
I have a short column up at Guardian:CIF on the Clinton to North Korea visit.
I like the combination of percentage of GDP with percentage of world spending. Via.