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- Is it time for the UK abandon nuclear weapons.
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Panetta Touts Aircraft Carrier’s Agility in Visit to Enterprise
Aircraft carriers will continue to be important to U.S. military strategy, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told the crew of the USS Enterprise yesterday. Enterprise is underway in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for the ship’s 22nd and final deployment following 50 years of naval service. “Carriers play a major role in our military, not [...]
Darpa Developing Novel New Fire Suppression Method
Fire in a combat vehicle, aboard a ship or other confined space such as an airplane cockpit puts warfighters at risk. Today’s fire suppression technologies are many decades old and focus largely on disrupting the chemical reactions involved in combustion by spraying water, foams or other chemicals on the flames. The key to transformative firefighting [...]
Defense, State Agree to Pursue Conduct Code for Outer Space
The departments of Defense and State have agreed an international code of conduct should govern activities in outer space, and officials announced plans to work with the European Union to develop it. Pentagon Press Secretary George Little yesterday issued a statement saying DOD “supports the concept” of an international code of conduct for outer space [...]
Chairman Explains Joint Operational Access Concept in Blog
The nation’s top military officer wrote in a blog post yesterday about a new Defense Department concept to assure U.S. forces entry and sustained access to any contested domain: land, air, space, sea or cyber. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Joint Operational Access Concept is based [...]
US Defense Releases The Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC)
This paper proposes a concept for how joint forces will achieve operational access in the face of armed opposition by a variety of potential enemies and under a variety of conditions, as part of a broader national approach. Operational access is the ability to project military force into an operational area with sufficient freedom of [...]
Cobra Gold 2012 to Promote Partnership, Interoperability
Cobra Gold, the United States’ longest-standing military exercise in the Pacific, kicks off this weekend, bringing together more than 10,000 members of the U.S. and six other militaries to focus on interoperability and multinational coordination and training. Almost 7,000 U.S. service members, most of them Marines from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, will participate in [...]
Navy to Maintain Focus on Middle East, Strait of Hormuz
The Navy will remain focused on the Middle East, particularly the strategic Strait of Hormuz, while ensuring its sailors operating there are remain properly equipped for the mission, the chief of naval operations said yesterday. Navy Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert told a Center for New American Security forum that tensions over the Strait of Hormuz [...]
Panetta: ‘Sequestration’ Would Upend Military Strategy
The Defense Department’s new 10-year strategy will go “out the window” if the federal Budget Control Act’s additional spending cuts go into effect next year, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said. “If we had to do over a trillion dollars in cuts in this department, I have to tell you that the strategy that we [...]
Specifics Still to Come as DOD Unveils New Strategy
Specifics on how the new defense strategic guidance will affect the Pentagon’s budget will take shape in the weeks to come as White House and Defense Department officials prepare President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request. Obama, joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of [...]
