Via FP, a new independent Russian report indicates that three of the six Russian aircraft lost during the South Ossetia War were shot down by friendly fire. The report also suggests that cooperation between Russian ground and air forces was less than fruitful. While the...
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Via Danger Room, Robert Gates invokes the destruction of Force Z in defense of creative military thinking:The Royal Navy’s greatest defeat in World War II – the sinking of the.
The Russian Army will begin professionalizing its non-commissioned officer corps. Via WiB.
Pavel Podvig has a fabulous article in the Summer 2008 IS on the development of Soviet nuclear doctrine and force structure in the 1970s:The data presented here demonstrate that concerns about the U.S. “window of vulnerability,” which figured so prominently in U.S. political discussions of...
Intriguing:A defense analyst I spoke with, who advises American ground forces, said to rebuild the Georgian military along conventional lines might be the wrong approach. Instead he suggested a different.
I'm stunned that a concept initially described as "a process for obtaining a desired strategic outcome or effect on the enemy through the synergistic and cumulative application of the full.
Russia Navy Blog has a translation of a Russian article investigating the effectiveness of the Army in Georgia. Reaction speed: Good. Communications: Bad, especially with the Air Force. Recon and night operations bad; T-72s and various APCs also bad. For your humble blogger, this was...
This article by Major Niel Smith and Colonel Seth MacFarland on the foundations of the "Anbar Awakening" strategy is a must read. Smith and MacFarland detail how they helped bring.
Last week about forty Patterson students and faculty visited Fort Knox, which is currently the home of the US Army armor school and of a basic training facility. In addition.
We've been field-tripping lately at Patterson; this week to Proctor and Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati, last week to Fort Knox. Both trips have, believe it or not, spawned some thoughts that may be of mild interest to those who were planning on staying home on...
Yesterday in class I showed the following:Which is the first of a three part propaganda film asserting that the United States was vulnerable to Soviet nuclear attack. Contained therein are.
The USAF has been pissing off a lot of people lately.The first problem is the F-22. The Air Force insists that it needs a lot of them. Congress, footing the.