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6 Apr 2017, 10:00 am by Jordan Brunner
Security Council by the United States, Britain, and France to pass a resolution condemning the attacks as “completely unacceptable,” and forcing Assad to disclose information on the actions of its air force on the day of the attack, Foreign Policy notes. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 10:00 pm by Dr. Richard Raymond
The moment that agreement occurred was actually on “a dark and stormy night” as the top OMB official and myself, along with many others, sat in a hanger at Andrews Air Force Base waiting for a thunderstorm to pass so we could fly to Belgium for high level talks with the European Union. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 8:54 am by Jordan Brunner
In June 2015, the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Air Force produced a vision document for the integration of autonomous systems into the Air Force over the next 30 years. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 9:27 am by Jordan Brunner
” Three national experts testified during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday that developing a conventional variant of the long-range air-launched cruise missile would be a way to respond to Russia’s continuing violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 11:24 am by Jordan Brunner
The Washington Post tells us that Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA), a former Air Force lawyer and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis requesting information on how the Trump administration is waging its air campaign against ISIS, drawing attention to comments by Trump during the election and suggesting that the administration may be in violation of the laws of war. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 12:22 pm by Jordan Brunner
A senior State Department official clarified that the term refers to pockets of stability in Syria’s two conflicts: areas where coalition forces have defeated ISIS militants, and areas where ceasefires, ostensibly negotiated by Turkey, Russia, and Iran in Astana, could “de-escalate” the civil war. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 9:33 am by Jordan Brunner
In June 2015, the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Air Force produced a vision document for the integration of autonomous systems into the Air Force over the next 30 years. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 11:25 am by Jordan Brunner
The officials were also told to brace for a cut of 40 percent to State Department U.N. peacekeeping budget. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 8:00 am
Seventy people executed after the Federal Security Agency bombing, fifty-five in response to the blasting of the La Plata Police Department, thirty for the attack on the Ministry of Defense, forty in the New Year’s Massacre following the death of Colonel Castellanos, and nineteen after the explosion that destroyed the Ciudadela precinct, amount to only a portion of the twelve hundred executions in three hundred alleged battles where the opposition came out with zero wounded and zero… [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 7:15 am by Helen Klein Murillo
Air Force Captain Brian Brady, counsel for Walid Bin’Attash, now presents a motion to compel discovery on the intelligence community’s monitoring of their defense team and attorney-client communications. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 5:22 am by Jimmy Chalk, Sarah Grant
Chinese air traffic controllers contacted a U.S. bomber flying within the China’s controversial Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) near the Korean peninsula, insisting the aircraft leave the zone. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 11:16 am by Jordan Brunner
” The costs of support to the Kurds may include access to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, which the U.S. uses to launch operations in both Syria and Iraq. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 11:13 am by Jordan Brunner
The Times notes that Air Force Lieutenant General Jack Weinstein, who is responsible for overseeing the United States’s atomic weapons arsenal, has expressed concern over what he described as “much more aggressive” behavior by Russia in recent years, and recommended that the United States strengthen and modernize its nuclear deterrent force. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 5:30 am by Rep. Adam Schiff
  Many of the same macroeconomic and demographic forces that have buffeted our country in recent years are also present overseas and often to a greater degree. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 1:30 pm by Jordan Brunner
Russia’s Defense Ministry has confirmed that it has embedded servicemen with units of the YPG in northern Syria, but said they were there to monitor a ceasefire between Kurdish forces and rival Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces. [read post]