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Fight’s On!
The Government of India (finally) tendered it’s offer for the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) – a deal estimated at $10B and one of the largest of it’s kind offered. Plan is to purchase a total of 128 with the first 18 bought in a "flyaway condition" to equip the first squadron. The remaining 108 will…
Intramural Warfare – 2009 Budget Edition
The three maritime services get together and hammer out a strategic vision that ties them together, informing their future planning for training, equipping and manning. They show up in Congress, testify before the HASC (all three together for the first time) and are generally well received. Certainly not eviscerated like the CSAF who was told…
Airplan: 5-11 Sep
Several years back I had the extraordinary privilege to get to know a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack who had been assigned to one of the gun turret crews onboard the USS Nevada (BB-36). As a junior "hinge" (O-4/LCDR) I was both captivated by the re-telling, first hand, of the accounts of that morning, and…
DoD Blocks Websites
Guess lunchtimes will be a bit duller around DoD offices these days: WASHINGTON, May 14, 2007 – The Defense Department is blocking access to many popular Internet sites from department-owned computers due to bandwidth issues, U.S. Strategic Command officials said today. Joint Task Force Global Network Operations, which directs the operation and defense of the…


