Interesting article on why the Iraqi Air Force didn't fight in 2003: Rather than being afraid to fight in 2003 as the Americans initially speculated, Iraq was simply following the same pattern it had set nearly twenty years before. Ever since the Iran-Iraq War, Baghdad...
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Alex Harrowell has an excellent post on how we should think about airpower in the Libyan Civil War. The main point is that the effect of airpower is likely to.
My latest at WPR is about airpower, "savage war," and inter-service conflict: Nevertheless, assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over.
I couldn't be more happy: Tony Scott has confirmed he will direct a sequel to his 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. The film, he told the Hitfix blog, could focus on a new era of aerial warfare in which pilots control unmanned planes remotely. Earlier this...
I'm getting to this debate late, but my understanding of the situation (informed by Dima Adamsky's book, among others) is that revolution in military affairs (RMA) theory developed in the.
This is almost surreal. The company that's trying to put forward a Ukranian Antonov aircraft as the new USAF tanker is protesting a decision to reject its bid on account.
Visit your nearest Lockheed Martin dealer today: Via Trimble.
Noah Shachtman's article on USAF targeting procedures in Afghanistan is worth re-reading. ... despite some speculation to the contrary, it appears that David Petraeus will retain the restrictions described in.
Spencer, noting the recent research indicating that civilian deaths in Afghanistan generate hostility towards the United States: Additionally, some in the military consider a preoccupation with civilian casualties to be.
Bird Dog at Tacitus approvingly quotes the following from Richard Russell: American aircraft and cruise missiles also could target Iran’s key political, security, and military infrastructures to harm the power of the regime in Tehran. Strikes could target government buildings and even the homes of clerics;...