Category: Expert Analysis

The Agency is presented with a real challenge in regards to social media proliferation and its impact on agent cover identities.

Want to play mercenary? Better pack lightly, check your hubris, develop a sense of humor, and abandon all hope.

Navy SEALs may seem arrogant for believing that they can do anything, but we’ve seen the impossible become possible far too many times to think otherwise.

In a 2011 Air Force white paper, Dr. Tawfik Hamid tries to make the link between wearing a hijab and promoting “passive terrorism.”

Ground Branch operators, the CIA’s elite, carrying out their missions and staying in the shadows to protect national security.

Former Delta Force sniper John McPhee gives tips on how to judge distances quickly.

In Part Two, we barely scratched the surface of some of the ways fighters and controllers coordinate to get bombs on target. Close Air Support is a very fluid and dynamic environment, especially in today’s areas of operations. To end the series, I’ll discuss some of the alternatives and finish with how technology is changing […]

Deterrence through military might has kept us safe in the past, but has proven impotent in our War on Terror.

Although K2 Solutions appears to be morally wrong for how they conducted business, they are not legally wrong unless they violated their contract.

This week two stories from different sides of the world reminded US air power advocates why achieving Air Superiority may be more difficult in the 21st Century than it was at the tail end of the last century. First, it was widely reported that China deployed indigenously produced modern long-range surface-to-air missiles (MLR SAMs) system, […]

Good afternoon, Fightersweep Fans! If you’ve been following the news, you may have heard that ISIS has claimed to shoot down a Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, while several other of these aircraft have mysteriously crashed over the past couple of months. It is known that Daesh may possess IR-guided SAMs, some light Anti-Aircraft Artillery, and possibly even […]

Editor’s Note: Rand Corporation has been a long-trusted think-tank in the Washington, D.C. area and, based on its latest report, the company believes NATO would end up losing an engagement with the Russians over territory in the Baltic Sea region. A lot of factors are at play, but the study’s conclusion are certainly not unfounded. […]