June 5th: ” In every battle there is a moment when the combatants, and the world, seem to catch their breath. It is a fleeting moment, lost in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, everything changes. Such moments are borne of desperation, of courage, of plain dumb luck. But they are…
Any of us who have spent a fair amount of time at sea become acquainted with the full cycle of life — from the births at home to the passings at sea. For those of us in aviation, that environment afforded more opportunities for the latter, sometimes, unfortunately, exceptionally so. My first encounter was when…
Setting the stage for the Solomon Islands Campaign project which kicks off next month…and what better way than with the classic, Victory at Sea:
In a nutshell: Nuclear Deterrence mission: “Back-to-basics”, increase by 2,000 number of nuclear support personel, add a 4th B-52 sqdn TACAIR: Accelerate retirement of 254 F-15, F-16 and A-10 a/c, validate remaining service life of residual legacy TACAIR a/c Space: Field new satellites including the Global Positioning Satellite Block IIF, Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF),…
(which might also serve as a cautionary tale to those who decry ‘future warists’ – SJS) …Investments in blood and treasure: Jan. 1927: 8 officers and 81 enlisted men of VO-1M, led by Maj. Ross Rowell, arrived at Corinto, Nicaragua with six DH’s. Amidst the anarchy of the civil and banditry, the U.S. Marines held…
Writing in today’s Japan Times Online, columnist Michael Richardson raises several, hoary arguments as to the possible effectiveness of missile defense vs. massive retaliation as a form of deterrence vis-à -vis the DPRK’s l’enfant terrible and the latest brewing crisis on the Korean peninsula. We say “hoary†because true to the definition, the arguments are the…
And so here we are, on the cusp of the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon – where have we come in those forty years? As a star-crossed (literally) youth in 1969, my imagination was fired by the likes of the space program. From Sheppard’s sub-orbital flight that I recall watching from…
The following remarks were presented by CNO at the Current Strategy Forum, hosted by the Naval War College, on 16 June 2009. We are presenting them here, unedited or commented upon, except for certain boldened passages that we feel require emphasis. The comments section is open for your thoughts… – SJS It is really a…
6/21 UPDATE: Well — much tinkering and unsubstantiated guessing later (and no thanks to a certain host) we *think* we’ve reached a solution and in the process, deploying a new theme. So, we’ll give it a try and see if there is any more wanking from out their way. You undoubtedly have noticed a change…
Fifty years ago: 19 June 1959 – the first ZPG-3W airship designed to supplement the AEW barrier patrol was delivered to the Navy. To see other uses of LTA’s, head over to the USNI blog for today’s Flightdeck Friday… The ZPG-3W was the follow-on and larger AEW blimp to the ZPG-2N and was the largest…
