As Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM continued onward into 2010, rhetoric and policy began to change in Washington. President Obama had pledged an eventual drawdown of American forces throughout Southwest Asia (SWA), and Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, indicated that a new operations title was needed to betterContinue Reading
In April of 2008, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was well underway across Afghanistan and neighboring regions. The campaign had been launched in response of a coordinated terrorist attack on American soil on 11 September 2001. The situation in the Afghani territory of Helmand in early April of 2008 was thatContinue Reading
The article below is a succeeding article that approaches art in the Vietnam War from a different perspective from it’s sister. This one was drafted my senior year at a totally different institution from the first, and includes a few more nuances of my current stance on subject matter. Again,Continue Reading
The article listed below is what I like to call, evidence of education through trial and error. This was composed my second year of undergrad – at a university that offered no military history courses and barely afforded any honor or homage to the military profession. It has a sisterContinue Reading
The B-29 bomber has worked it’s way into the annals of history through various means. It was a B-29 that set dozens of flight length records between 1948 and 1952, and it was the B-29 to function as the first dedicated reconnaissance platform and the first airborne refueling platform. However,Continue Reading
It was an unfathomable decision to make. The president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, was presented with a way to possibly end the war in the Pacific which would have dire consequences for thousands or even millions of people. What was worse was that if he chose theContinue Reading
The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program was born out of a 1993 requirement by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The requirement established the launch of Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter (CALF) program that put forth a proposition for DoD aircraft to unify airframes across all branches. This was hardly unprecedented,Continue Reading
It’s a typical pattern of evolution. Each generation recognizes something that was absurd or incredible in the past as ordinary in the present. As time passes, evolution takes hold again, and we are left in awe of something new and truly amazing once again. Mankind is full of such advancementsContinue Reading
An idea that had seemed so far away at the crux of the war in Europe had quickly come to the forefront of the mind of the Allies as April 1945 pressed on. The month had proven to be particularly harsh on Axis forces, having lost over one million combatants,Continue Reading
Everyone is familiar with the concept of cause and effect. For every action, there is a reaction of the same or lesser magnitude. Sometimes the resulting reaction is just the first in a chain of events that leads up to something else. A chain reaction, that’s what one might callContinue Reading
