The Air-Sea Battle Concept: Defense Strategic Guidance and JOAC
President Barack H. Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin …
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The Surrender of Italy: The Allies’ Bungled Opportunity
Gen. George S. Patton called it “the unforgiving minute”– that moment in combat when opportunity for success at little or …
The Smatchet: Fairbairn’s Other Fighting Knife
The Special Training Centre at Inverailort House near the remote hamlet of Lochailort on Scotland’s western coast is justly famous …
The Air-Sea Battle Concept: Antecedents
As noted in the previous post, the Air-Sea Battle Concept had antecedents in the Air-Land Battle Doctrine. Given that the …
The Air-Sea Battle Concept: New Strategy for a New Era
The Secretary of Defense recently released the long-awaited document, Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access & Area Denial Challenges. …
Operation Husky: British Gen. Sir Harold Alexander and the Great Boundary Line Dispute
In his July 13, 1943 diary entry, written during Operation Husky, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., commander of the …
Successful Flight Test for Bi-Directional Remote Video Terminal (BDRVT)
A two-hour flight test of a U.S. Army Shadow unmanned aerial system (UAS) on June 26, 2013, represented a major …
RDECOM Facilitates Q-Net II Test Data Transfer to France
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) recently transferred test data regarding the Q-Net II RPG-defense system to …
Nurse Sharon Lane Paid the Highest Price in Vietnam
Sharon Lane wrote home that she was starting the night shift soon, so she wouldn’t have to get up early. …
Army Restructuring: 80,000 Soldiers, 12 Brigade Combat Teams Get the Chop
Gen. Ray Odierno, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, announced new force reductions and Army restructuring decisions during a press conference …