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Anyone who has studied air accidents knows that seemingly minor problems can cause catastrophes. Air France suffered the worst crash in its history three years ago when malfunctioning air-speed indicators on a Paris-bound Airbus A330 flying over the South Atlantic set in motion a series of cockpit
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Date:
8/8/2012
The private sector has a number of techniques, called best practices, which they routinely employ to reduce costs and boost performance. A number of these have to do with supply chain management. One of the key reasons that the globalized economy works and companies such as Walmart makes a profit
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4/11/2012
Even if politicians don't notice how many of the Air Force's major commands are located in "swing" states like Colorado, Illinois and Virginia, there's good reason to believe the service will experience a renaissance in the years ahead. First, the locus of global security concerns is shifting to
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11/14/2011
Aerospace experts scrutinizing images of the Chinese J-20 fighter that first began appearing on the internet in late December have developed a more nuanced view of the plane's features than what was available in early reports. Although the J-20 resembles the outline of the stealthy F-22 Raptor
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3/2/2011
If you're wondering why the Air Force was a big winner in recent budget shifts proposed by defense secretary Robert Gates, it might have something to do with the Pentagon's growing concern about Chinese military breakthroughs. Over the last few years, Beijing has tested its first anti-satellite
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Date:
1/24/2011
Only two years after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ decision to end production of the F-22 Raptor at 187 aircraft, the program may be poised to rise like a phoenix from the ashes. When Gates made his decision, it was on the assumption that other countries -- notably Russia and China -- would
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1/18/2011
Much has been written over the past few days about how the Chinese military's decision to flight-test its new J-20 fighter during a visit by U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates was an embarrassment for China's civilian leaders. Apparently, nobody in the Peoples Liberation Army had bothered to mention
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1/13/2011
Defense publications are reporting that Russia is considering selling its newest fighter, the SU-35, to China. The SU-35 has enhanced radar, improved avionics, better flight surfaces, a more powerful engine and larger fuel tanks. Aviation experts characterize the SU-35 as a Generation 4+ aircraft.
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11/19/2010
The turning point for the United States in the Pacific during World War Two was the battle of Midway. Aircraft from three American aircraft carriers, the Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet, successfully engaged a much larger Japanese fleet including six aircraft carriers, sinking four of them and forcing
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4/12/2010
If you want to understand why President Obama's job-approval level has fallen to 38% among independents in Ohio -- the most important "swing state" in the electoral system -- then take a look at what our Republican-holdover defense secretary is saying about weapons systems. Having already wiped
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2/24/2010
There has been too much attention focused on President Obama’s refusal to do the “pivot” with respect to domestic policy. A pivot is moving from one position on the political spectrum to another. The notion was that in the aftermath of the Massachusetts senatorial election with the loss of the Kennedy
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Date:
2/19/2010
The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is supposed to take a twenty year view of the threats to U.S. security and the requirements for U.S military forces. One of this QDR’s assumptions is that the United States can afford to take risk in the area of conventional forces in favor of investments
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Date:
2/1/2010