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With the Edo XOSE-1 program being terminated, this would be the last time Edo would build an aircraft all on their own. However, Edo would propose a very interesting concept to the US Navy in the 1950s for an amphibious fighter similar to the Convair F2Y Sea Dart. However, this type ...
The U.S. military talks of nuclear modernization and “investing” in nukes when the only dividend of this “investment” is mass death. One of the few honest acronyms is MAD, or mutually assured destruction. Lately, it’s an acronym that’s largely disappeared from American discourse. More ...
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Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are so pervasive they have spawned a military acronym: VUCA. Yet the inherently bureaucratic national-security institutions have failed to keep pace. The US Department of Defense (DOD) is still largely governed by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of ...
“The bottom line is we are going to focus our efforts on supporting the Iraqi security forces and their efforts against Daesh from fewer bases with fewer people," the official said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “We are not saying that Daesh is finished. They ...
- Navy strength: 448,606 people- Marine Corps strength: 52,819 people- Air Force strength: Not yet formed- Total strength: 2,897,167 people- Percent of population enlisted: 2.81% Thousands of American troops joined forces in September 1918 with the allied intervention force at Archangel in ...
“In an air superiority mission, it’s fundamentally a different set of problems,” he says. “So for the navy it’s about fleet defence, some limited power projection. For the air force, it’s how do I go wherever I need to go in the world, and I need air superiority to d...
You can see drone proponents fighting against this deep-seated cultural prejudice against flying killer robots whenever they propose a new acronym. Toscano prefers “Unmanned Arial System” because he wants to emphasize that the thing that flies is only 30 percent of a system of software and senso...