What Did the Israelis Hit?
An Israeli Air Force F-16I Sufa (Storm) Photo courtesy GlobalSecurity.org Reports continue to circulate about the possible target of last week’s Israeli military strike in eastern Syria. According to The…
Utterly Predictable
From today’s U.K. Guardian comes this utterly predictable account of Al Qaida’s “resurgence.” According to the paper, the terrorist organization has revived, spread and is again capable of staging another…
Bears on the Prowl (Again)
An RAF Typhoon shadows a Russian Bear H bomber, during an intercept flown last month (U.K. MoD via AFP) For the third time in less than a month, Norwegian and…
Israeli Air Force F-15Is
(GlobalSecurity.org)Israeli Air Force F-15Is Sunday’s U.K. Times provided tantalizing details of Israel’s recent airstrike against that Syrian nuclear facility. Based on reporting from the Middle East and Washington, the Times…
The Murphy Saga Continues
Air Force Times is reporting new developments in the case of Colonel Michael Murphy, the former commander of the service’s legal operations agency. Readers will recall that Murphy was removed…
General John Abizaid, former Commander of U.S. Central Command
General John Abizaid, former Commander of U.S. Central Command (AP file photo) When he was picked to lead U.S. Central Command in 2004, Army General John Abizaid was viewed as…
Too Good to be True?
A SCUD missile and its transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) In its current edition, Jane’s Defence Weekly (subscription required) is reporting that “dozens” of Iranian engineers and at least 15 Syrian officers were…
Iran's "Plan"
An Iranian F-4 Phantom, the likely candidate for any potential airstrike (read: suicide mission) against Israel. It doesn’t take a general to figure out that military plans are largely worthless,…
Keeping an Eye on Us
According to a senior Iranian military official, Tehran is monitoring U.S. troop movements with “satellites and other technology” and those forces would be within range of Iranian missiles, “if an…
The Airlift Conundrum
The C-5 Galaxy (FAS photo). According to Air Force Times, Defense Secretary Robert Gates will soon announce that cost overruns on the C-5 Galaxy transport modernization program have now reached…