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Air dominance is crucial to U.S. military strategy. However, dominance means more than mere command of the air. It means being able to leverage that command to provide awareness, mobility and precision strike to the entire joint force. Over the last eight months, the Lexington Institute has
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Date:
2/27/2013
This week the Air Force held one of its periodic meetings of four-star officers to discuss high-priority challenges facing the service. One of the agenda items was figuring out how to integrate and exploit the diverse array of intelligence that its various sensor systems are collecting. In addition
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Date:
10/4/2012
The past ten years of war have seen a wide array of advances in critical military capabilities. Supported by a robust R&D establishment and a very capable industrial base, the U.S. military has deployed leap-ahead capabilities in such diverse areas as cold weather clothing, night vision equipment,
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Date:
10/2/2012
As defense companies search for segments of the military market that may be insulated from a downturn in defense spending, one area that has been heavily favored is intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance -- widely referred to in the business as ISR. The thinking of corporate planners and
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Date:
5/24/2012
There's a story in the May 14 issue of Defense News that helps explain why Air Force modernization since the end of the Cold War has been largely a chronicle of missed opportunities. The story by reporter Jeff Schogol quotes Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz as saying that he doesn't think
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Date:
5/18/2012


