Blake Baiers
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Weekly Recon – NATO Resolve, Arming Ospreys, Future Frigates
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1942, a Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on an Oregon state forest – the...
U.S. Army
Weekly Recon – 19 August 2017
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 2010, the last U.
Military Strategy
Weekly Recon - Future of Infantry, 'Rapid Eagle', Space War CONOPS, ...
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1961, in an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the...
Indo-Pacific/Asia
Weekly Recon 29 July 2017
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1963, Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign...
Military Strategy
Weekly Recon – Russia's Massive Baltic Exercise, EMALS Success ...
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1775, the legal origin of the Army U.
Military Strategy
Weekly Recon – Multi-Domain Updates
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1987, in a dramatic turnaround, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that he is...
U.S. Navy
Weekly Recon – Multi-Domain Updates
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1958, President Eisenhower ordered 5,000 U.
Military Strategy
Weekly Recon 8 July 2017
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 1853, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.
U.S. Air Force
Weekly Recon 24 June
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon . On this day in 1948, one of the most dramatic standoffs of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union...
Defense Budget
Weekly Recon: Welcome Sandra Erwin, Navy's Mothballs, Mattis on the Hill
Good Saturday morning and welcome to Weekly Recon. On this day in 2006, The Second Battle of Ramadi was fought for control of the capital of the Al...
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZoneWho Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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