Ukraine Response: U.S. Deploys Additional Aircraft to Poland and Baltics
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying more aircraft to Poland and the Baltics in response to the Russian …
U.S. Air Force
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …
Smaller Budgets, Greater Burdens for the VA and DoD
Massive budget cuts and sequestration, from current funding into the foreseeable future, could not have come at a worse time …
The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region: China’s Growing Military Capabilities
Capabilities and Intent
In our previous post we looked at the geostrategic realities – including China’s economic rise – undergirding …
VA Research: Traumatic Brain Injury
Since 2001, better body armor and innovations in battlefield medicine have made troops in Iraq and Afghanistan more likely than …
Transit Center at Manas’ Final Mission | Photos
The Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, has been a gateway to Afghanistan for troops and supplies since its opening in …
VA Research: Women’s Health
Women have served in every U.S. military conflict since the American Revolution, but it wasn’t until 1923 that Congress directed …
VA Research: The Million Veteran Program
VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP) holds the potential for revolutionizing the way research is conducted and medicine practiced. Launched in …
SOUTHCOM Missions
With an area of responsibility (AOR) encompassing 31 countries and 15 areas of special sovereignty – a region representing about …
The U.S. Army Air Forces Strips Its Planes of Paint
All the military powers in World War II used camouflage paint schemes for their aircraft. The main purpose was to …