At 6:12 p.m. on June 7, 2006, a 500-pound, laser-guided GBU-12 bomb was released from a U.S. Air Force F-16 over a box-like two-story house near the town of Hibhib …
With North Africa liberated and plans for Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, on track, the question confronting the United States and Great Britain was: What’s next? That was the …
April 2013 was a big month for cocaine busts in the Central American Transit Zone, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was, as usual, in the middle of things. …
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An …
The recent situation in Northeast Asia has been extensively covered by Defense Media Network. Over the past several weeks, international attention has been focused on North Korea’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric …
It’s the Missile that Hits the Target
The U.S. Navy has a long and largely successful history of shipboard Aegis ballistic missile defense development. While there are countless components to …
Previous posts have focused on missile defense writ large and on ballistic missile defense more specifically, especially, as in the case of the AirSea Battle Concept, what Aegis ballistic missile …
The alpine region of Tyrol, a borderland between Italians and Germans, has long bred skillful hunters and tough mountain warriors. Around 1778, a Tyrolean master gunsmith, Bartolomeo Girandoni (1729-1799), invented …
In the early years of the war, knowledge of Ultra – British decoded German cypher traffic encrypted by the Enigma machine – was limited to only the most senior American …
The evolution of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has mirrored the nation it serves. One of the most enduring themes of the two-century history of the Army Corps …
