Test Plan
Sixty-six years have passed since the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) was launched on March 12, 1945 with the …
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The Year in Special Operations 2011-2012 Edition to Launch at SOFIC 2011
If you’re attending SOFIC in Tampa May 17-19 be sure to look for the latest edition of The Year in …
Marine Special Operations Forces Evolution
“Send in the Marines!”
As had been true for more than two centuries, that was one of the first actions …
At the Poles, the End – or the Beginning – of an Era
With funding for new icebreakers nowhere in sight, some analysts – such as conservative scholar James Carafano – have called …
At the Poles, the End – or the Beginning – of an Era
Its massive hull, driven by a gas turbine and diesel-electric engines that together generated 75,000 horsepower, could plow through ice …
After Deployment: A Conversation with Virginia Task Force 1 About Their Time in Japan – Part 5
In the final installment of Defense Media Network senior homeland security writer Rich Cooper’s five-part interview with Virginia Task Force …
Any Conditions, All Resiliency
As the events of May 1 unfolded in a compound north of Islamabad, Pakistan, President Obama and his national security …
U.S. Navy Year in Review
The U.S. Navy completed its 235th year on the high seas in 2010, and it is in a position to …
Countdown Under way for SBIRS GEO-1
Countdown procedures are well under way for the launch of a first-of-its kind spacecraft that will utilize sophisticated scanning and …
Bin Laden’s Legacy?
So Osama bin Laden is dead. Finally, almost 10 years from the date that al Qaeda attacked the World Trade …