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defensenews.com / view original The U.S. Air Force is widening the use of UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator.Photo by: U.S. Air Force NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Predator UAVs are becoming key players in the U.S. Air Force’s premier combat exercises — Red Flag — signaling yet another major cultural shift in the way the …

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Co-written with Robert Ward Stories about the decline of the Air Force are flooding the media. For example, in AOL Defense Mackenzie Eaglen and Doug Birkey claim that the Air Force is "slowly going out of business" because of budget cuts and won't be able to modernize its fleet, maintain military supremacy or adapt to …

Continue reading "Tailspin or Stall? Challenges Face New USAF Chief But Money Not the Problem by Lawrence Korb"

DeM Banter: Probably too close to this to comment... Government Executive August 15, 2012 America’s military community has long felt disconnected from the civilian population it protects. In the latest survey from the nonprofit military support group Blue Star Families, 95 percent of respondents, who included service members, veterans, spouses and children, agreed with the …

Continue reading "Keeping The Faith: Can the military save on pay and benefits without breaking faith? By Kellie Lunney"

view original / thediplomat.com DeM Banter:  A more realistic view of "the Pivot?" Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, China has become America’s default adversary, the power against which the United States measures itself militarily, at least when there is no more proximate enemy in sight. With America’s war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding …

Continue reading "Conflict with China: What It Would Look Like, How to Avoid It: by James Dobbins"

DeM Banter: Are we pondering the 2nd and 3rd order effects? There is good here...to be sure, but are we looking at the strategic implications of proliferation and the empowerment of robotic warfare? Perhaps we are... Danger Room (Wired.com) August 13, 2012 More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic …

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DeM Banter: Classic...crisis, complexity, and confusion (C3), but does the USAF culture support the communication, creative thinking and collaboration to fix it? ...trust.....something that takes a great deal of time and effort to rebuild Air Force Times August 20, 2012 Pg. 20 Welsh must repair relations with Congress and reserve components, experts say The new chief of …

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