Royal Navy of Oman Prepares for a New Flagship
The Royal Navy of Oman traces its lineage back to the seafarers who plied their trade on the Tigris, Euphrates, …
International Militaries
First Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35 Pilot Takes Flight
The Netherlands became the second partner country to operate the F-35A Lightning II, when Maj. Laurens J.W. Vijge of the …
Airborne C4ISR Aircraft Survey
During World War II, as Nazi Germany’s Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range reconnaissance bombers threatened the safety of vital naval …
Mikhail Kalashnikov’s Legacy
Lt. Gen. Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer and developer of the ubiquitous AK-series of combat rifles, passed away in Russia at …
The Coast Guard’s International Training Division (ITD)
The U.S. Navy is the world’s largest, with the only global blue-water fleet, with multiple nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, …
Book Review – Fighting Hitler’s Jets: The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany
This new book, from the prolific expert Robert F. Dorr, offers an informed view of the opportunities and the difficulties …
The Nation’s “Solutioneers”
The U.S. military’s six geographic and three functional combatant commands (CCMDs) are the nation’s global command and control centers, not …
Rommel Assumes Command of the Atlantic Wall
In the latter half of 1943, two of World War II’s most colorful and charismatic senior commanders, Gen. George S. …
Offshore Patrol Vessels Middle East 2013 Delegates Agree on Importance of Protecting Global Sea Lanes
Attendees at the IQPC Offshore Patrol Vessels Middle East 2013 conference, which concluded on Dec. 11, agreed that that the …
The Rise of Tito
Yugoslavia (“Land of the South Slavs”) was an artificial nation carved out of the former Astro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 that …