The National Defense Authorization Act 2013
When President Barack Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) of 2012 into law, it was already 2013 – …
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Men Against Mosquitoes: Malaria in War
More than arrows, swords, bullets, or bombs, disease has been the biggest killer of soldiers until quite recently. Malaria was …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Continuing Evolution
How the Threat has Evolved
In an earlier post, we described how the worldwide ballistic missile threat has evolved. We …
Book Review – America’s Black Sea Fleet
In the aftermath of World War I, a U.S. Navy squadron, “America’s Black Sea Fleet,” was forward-deployed to the Turkish …
Navy Forced to Reschedule Carrier Strike Group Rotation
America’s looming fiscal crisis delivered real-world consequences last week with a pair of blows to one of the U.S. Navy’s …
Women in Combat: An Opportunity, Not a Guarantee
“If members of our military can meet the qualifications for a job, then they should have the right to serve, …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Vision Realized
While the story of Aegis writ large has been touched upon earlier – and told more extensively in many fora, …
A Very Short History of Postwar Military Airships
When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first …
The New Age of Military Airships Isn’t Likely to Last Very Long
To anyone at all passionate about airships, New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air Station is Jerusalem. Birthplace and home to the …
X-47B UCAS Deck-handling Testing Success
December’s first at-sea test of the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS-D) was historic, but in a way, it was …