Instead, the jets will support “active campaigning short of conflict”; they would retreat to safer airspace if a shooting war were to ignite. The army hopes that tactical choice will allow it to spend significantly less on the HADES programme than it would developin...
Rumor has it the fighter pilots aboard the Lexington and Yorktown had been told in a “classified” briefing this country was going to war with Japan soon. The Lexington and Yorktown were ordered out of Pearl Harbor on Thanksgiving Day in November 1941 and were three hundred miles from ...
[7]Artillery is playing a vital role in Ukraine,The Economist, 2 May 2022 [8]Military Briefing: HIMARS fuel Ukraine hopes of ‘limited’ counter-offensive, by Mehul Srivastava, Felicia Schwartz, & John-Paul Rathbone, Financial Times, 4 August 2022 [9]See theMini Manual For Urban Defenceby ...
“There’s no way you can address a complex catastrophe with a complicated solution,” said Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, USACE commanding general, at a White House press briefing. Responding to a question about how decisions were made on where to build, Semonite replied, “The biggest thi...
Invoking Zometa-Orellana’s emphasis on “international obligations”, the Court says that any PSG analysis must utilize an independent review of the record “as a whole”, including country conditions. Id.. The case doubles down on what I (frankly) thought was the most vulnerable aspect of ...
In an Aug.19, 2011 press briefing, U.S. Army GCV Program Manager Col. Andrew DiMarco outlined the “revised” GCV acquisition strategy based on an acquisition decision memorandum (ADM) signed two days earlier by Dr. Ashton Carter, then undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and...
China poses several awkward challenges for the US Army. First, the US Army is a land-based military service and China is an ocean away. Second, the wide-open spaces of the Pacific Ocean would seem to make it more difficult to hide in-bound helicopters an
Source:U.S. Army Briefing: Maneuver Warfighter Conference: Concept Implications on BCT Design Workgroup BCT 2020 Design Read Ahead, September 11, 2014. Vehicle Modernization, Recapitalization, and Reset In order to keep the Abrams, Bradley, and Stryker operational and effective over a prolonged perio...
International Crisis Group, "Sudan: Breaking the Abyei Deadlock", Africa Briefing No. 47, 12 October 2007, at p. 7, Exhibit-FE 15/11. Chevron drilled several successful wells in the Abyei region in the early 1980s, beginning with Taiyib 1 in 1981. Ibid. 97 Map 11 (Sudan: Oil ...
https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-march-8-2021/. 68 PRC State Council Information Office, China’s Military Strategy, May 27, 2015. Although the People’s Armed Police and China Coast Guard are under control of the CMC since 2018, they are not part of the PLA, ...