Digital Engineering: Accelerating the Defense Acquisition & Development Cycle in an Era of Strategic Competition by Heather R. Penney Senior Resident Fellow, the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies with Brian Morra Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Today’s Department of the Air Force (DAF) is in...
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The Next Phase of the Russo-Ukraine War: The Impact of Air Force General Sergei Vladimirovich Surovikin
Originally posted on Defense.info The Kremlin announced in early October that a new overall theater commander had been appointed to run its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine. The new commander of the Russian Ukrainian front is four-star Air Force General Sergei Vladimirovich Surovikin, who is also the commander of the Russian Aerospace...
Reaping the Whirlwind: Reflections on More Than Two Decades of Western Appeasement of Vladimir Putin
The War in Ukraine is – justifiably – the biggest news story in the world. Russia is delivering a major shock to the Post-Cold War geo-political system. Why is this happening now and how did it happen? I think it’s important to understand that the ongoing catastrophe in Ukraine is in many ways the product of some twenty-three years of Western...
Veterans Day/Series Preview
Today is Veterans Day/Remembrance Day. I’d like to acknowledge the service of my two grandfathers, both of whom saw combat in World War I. My maternal grandfather, John Flood, served as a non-commissioned officer in the British Army through all four years of the Great War. He was gassed twice. My paternal grandfather, John Morra, was a...