It's hard to disagree with David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum on the drone issue:Governments typically make several mistakes when attempting to separate violent extremists from populations in which they hide. First, they often overestimate the degree to which a population harboring an armed actor can...
air power
So, lot's of interesting defense news; read Spencer on the Afghanistan buildup and David Axe on the F-22. If you read the latter, please compare and contrast Axe's case for.
For some reason, the Atlantic continues to attract love letters to aircraft. I had hoped that Robert Kaplan's ode to the B-2 Spirit would be sufficient embarrassment to the magazine.
Much of interest here:Early in 2008, the Israeli government signaled that it might be preparing to take matters into its own hands. In a series of meetings, Israeli officials asked Washington for a new generation of powerful bunker-busters, far more capable of blowing up a...
Via Ackerman, Gershon Shafir:First, Israel is about to exhaust obvious and legitimate military targets, especially those available for aerial bombardment, even under their broadest interpretation. Admittedly Hamas never seriously tried.
To be clear, I think that the Israeli air campaign against Gaza will end up being destructive, and, from a political point of view, pointless at best. That said, the.
The New York Times shows the stupid:But it has another goal as well: to expunge the ghost of its flawed 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and re-establish Israeli deterrence....“There has been a nagging sense of uncertainty in the last couple years of whether anyone...
Surface to Air Missile technology is one of those areas where small shifts in tactical capability could have large strategic effects; if reliable, effective, difficult to counter surface to air.
Via Danger Room, David Fulghum has a good post up at Ares on the Russian Air Force. Whatever prep the Army and the Navy may have conducted prior to the.
Christian at Defense Tech makes a catch:Obama flew from Iraq to Amman on an MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Transport squadron 162 -- the newest Osprey squadron to deploy to Iraq.I'm kicking over some rocks as we speak to see if this was by...
Watch $1.2 billion go up in flames:
Noah summarizes the disputes between Gates and the Air Force to this point..Last fall, the Pentagon's civilian chiefs shot down an Air Force move to take over almost all of.