Matt Duss takes on James Fly in this week's installment of Foreign Entanglements: Yeah, good luck with that. Telling that Fly can't offer any examples of successful regime change through the air, or really very much in terms of what a target set would look...
airpower
Over at WPR, I have some thoughts on the USAF's latest effort to get rid of the pesky A-10 Warthog: For whatever reason, the A-10 has become a people’s favorite..
Another predictably unhinged anti-airpower screed: Steven Cook argues that the United States and NATO ought to start seriously discussing intervention in Syria. If not and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is.
The airpower advocates are crawling out of the woodwork: The lessons we take from Libya matter, because they will inform military procurement and intervention decisions for years to come. In the United States, the Army is battling budget hawks who will no doubt take solace...
Now this is some fascinating stuff: In a defensive cooperation agreement signed in 1957, USSR agreed to increase cooperation in aerospace tactics training and theater level exercises. By that year,.
My WPR column this week builds on Sunday's Libya post: One of the crucial military questions that emerged from the campaign involves the effectiveness of airpower. With one long ground.
My WPR column this week is an extension of this post from last week: What has been absent thus far, however, has been the strategic use of airpower: airstrikes designed to induce the regime to concede or collapse without reliance on ground forces. The absence...
I initially posted this at ID, but Blogger appears to be undergoing a complete meltdown. For your pleasure... I've been having some unfocused thoughts on the air campaign in Libya,.
Rebel progress in Libya: In the besieged western city of Misurata hundreds of rebels broke through one of the front lines late on Sunday, and by Monday afternoon were consolidating.
Spencer and I diavlog about airpower and such:
Even the Liberal New Republic sees fit to quote me on the utility of airpower: According to these experts, the relatively low skills of loyalists forces and the geography of.
A no fly zone over Libya has at least one set of ready advocates: Now [F-22] advocates are arguing that the world’s most capable tactical aircraft should be used to.