Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum Pilot's Flight Operating Manual (in English) (9781430313496): North Atlan Treaty Organization (NATO): Books. Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC. Daniel Soar · How to Get Ahead at the NSA · LRB 24 October 2013. If you’re not exhausted by or indifferent to the endless revelations about the NSA – another week, another codename, another programme to vacuum up and analyse the world’s communications – then you’ve probably long since drawn a single general conclusion: we’re all being watched, all the time.
You may also think this is something we sort of knew anyway. The Case of the Missing H-Bomb. By JEFFREY ST.
CLAIR Last week a report by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser (excerpted from his terrifying new book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety) revealed that two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on January 23, 1961. Each bomb carried a payload of 4 megatons. One of the weapons was fully engaged and, despite denials from the US government, came very close to detonating. Escalation Cause - By David Gompert and Terrence Kelly. As the threat to forward-deployed U.S. forces grows, particularly in East Asia, the Pentagon has been pursuing a strategy known as Air-Sea Battle.
As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Greenert and Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Welsh have outlined here in FP, the goal is to neutralize the ability of enemies to keep U.S. forces at bay with so-called anti-access and area-denial defenses. The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case. GPS jamming: Out of sight. Just How Many Weapons Can America Sell? - By William D. Hartung. When the leaders of the global aerospace industry met late last month at the 50th anniversary staging of the Paris Air Show, one word predominated: exports.
With military budgets leveling off or declining in the United States and Europe, arms companies are looking to deals in the Middle East and Asia to bolster their bottom lines. Nowhere has this strategy been more successful than in the United States, where an export-friendly Obama administration has presided over the largest arms-export boom in history. In 2011, the most recent year for which full statistics are available, the United States entered into arms sales agreements worth over $66 billion -- an astounding 78 percent of the world market. The current U.S. dominance of the trade will not go unchallenged. For example, as purchasing nations clamor for their own drones, China and other suppliers are seeking to develop cheaper alternatives to U.S. models. But the Obama administration will not yield market share without a fight.
Glimpse Inside Air-Sea Battle: Nukes, Cyber At Its Heart. PENTAGON: In intellectual terms, Air-Sea Battle is the biggest of the military’s big ideas for its post-Afghanistan future.
But what is it, really? It’s a constantly evolving concept for high-tech, high-intensity conflict that touches on everything from cyberwar to nuclear escalation to the rise of China. In practical terms, however, the beating heart of AirSea Battle is eleven overworked officers working in windowless Pentagon meeting rooms, and the issues they can’t get to are at least as important as the ones they can. “It’s like being a start-up inside a great, big, rigid corporation,” one Air-Sea Battle representative told me in an exclusive briefing last month. The Air-Sea Battle Office (ASBO) has just 17 staff: those eleven uniformed officers, drawn from all four services, plus six civilian contractors. “Air-Sea Battle has left the building,” said a second officer at the briefing.
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
Joint Air Operations: Pursuit of Unity in Command and Control, 1942-1991 - James A. Winnefeld. Doctrine Documents. Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group - By Matthew M. Aid. This weekend, U.S.
President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. Will Europe Ever Build Its Own Fifth Generation Fighter? « Breaking Defense. This year’s Paris Air Show promises to be one of the most lackluster for the defense sector in at least a decade.
America is sending virtually no military aircraft to fly the all-important afternoon displays: no F-22s, no F-35s, no C-17s, no C-130s. American companies have scaled back their executives’ participation, not because it saves any real money (one down day on the F-35 or USS Gerald Ford would cost a lot more than all the flights and hotel days and meals for all the American defense wallahs for the week-long Paris trip, I bet) but for the message it sends to Congress, the Pentagon and to stockholders in this time of sequestration and drawdown. While America may be in a moderately tough spot, European aerospace/defense companies face a truly compelling scenario: unemployment, deficits, cracks in the European Union facade, and defense budgets that have been on the down side since 2001.
Inside the CIA Mission to Haul Plutonium Up the Himalayas. Boston Bombing Suspects: Grassroots Militants from Chechnya. Just after 10 p.m. on April 18, the Tsarnaev brothers were identified after having robbed a convenience store in Cambridge, Mass., just three miles from Boston, hours earlier. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, who responded to the robbery, was shot and killed and found in his car by fellow responding officers. Rider on the Storm. The Mossad 'Prisoner X' story is not the Israeli spy agency's first debacle. She has the right stuff: Female combat pilots have been flashing their skills for 20 years. Retired Air Force Col.
Martha McSally, who logged more than 300 combat flying hours, today is recalling how she took part in the Pentagon’s last gender revolution, as the U.S. military prepares to open a new frontier for women — direct ground combat. The winter of 1993: Col. McSally and fewer than a dozen other young female officers got calls from the Air Force telling them a 45-year ban on women flying fighter jets and bombers was ending. They had been picked to be pioneers if they wanted to try to show they had the right stuff.
“Am I interested?” Col.