By Mike Sparks
April 29, 2009
“Geographically speaking, Afghanistan is ungovernable. It’s a recipe for a failed state”
– Defeatist statement from Peter Zeihan of STRATFOR
The April 2009 Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) on page 18 reports we are going to spend more than last year’s $36.5 BILLION occupying Afghanistan with 34,000 U.S. troops in 2008, yet Taliban violence [...]
By David Crane
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April 10, 2009
DefenseReview received an interesting CNN video clip (link below) yesterday from the good folks at the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), yesterday, showing SAF president Alan Gottlieb (Alan M. Gottlieb) going up against the combined brain trust–and we use that term loosely–of CNN news anchor/commentator/newly-appointed hatchet man Rick [...]
By David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
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January 4, 2009
While we like to stay pretty busy here [...]
By David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com
Article updated on 12/08/08
December 2, 2008
As the world reels from the Mumbai, India terrorist attack(s), a lot of questions are being asked and answered, and accusations are being made. But none that DefenseReview has read, save one (thank you CrimeFileNews.com), get to the core of the problem and discuss [...]
By David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com
October 28, 2008
According to a recent Air Force Times article, the F-22 Raptor has the lowest pilot-retention rate of any U.S. fighter or attack aircraft measured, at a rather abysmal 33%. Compare this to 81% for F-15E Strike Eagle pilots and 68% for F-15 Eagle pilots respectively, and, [...]
by David Crane
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August 4, 2008
On Saturday, August 16, 2008, the Stars and Stripes Foundation (SASF) is holding a “Shoot for the Troops” shooting event at the Moore-N-Moore Sporting Clays range in San Fernando, CA (Los Angeles area). The SASF shoot will include clay target shotgun shooting, handgun and rifle shooting, military vehicle [...]
By David Crane
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DefenseReview has been contacted by a number of journalists (reporters and writers) to get our take on the Northrop Grumman/EADS (Airbus) aerial refueling tanker aircraft contract award and subsequent Boeing protest situation. This is a big-deal situation, since our current fleet of KC-135 tanker aircraft are getting quite [...]
by David Crane
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May 25, 2008
Aaaand we’re back. Sorry for the delay in reporting in, but we’ve been fighting the travel demons and illness (minor and temporary) simultaneously. We shot some good video at the 2008 NDIA International Infantry & Joint Services Small Arms Systems Symposium, but we’re not sure how much [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 19, 2008
DefenseReview is headed to the NDIA International Infantry & Joint Services Small Arms Systems Symposium 2008, and we’ll be reporting from the show. If you’re going to the show, look for us and say hello. We’ll be walking around, making the rounds.
See ya’ there!
By David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 14, 2008
Modified on 5/15/08 — Some information has been redacted/removed from this article by the author/editor (David Crane) for OPSEC.
Updated again on 9/11/09 with originally-provided bullet and manufacturer info redacted on 5/15/08.
A number of months ago, DefenseReview was informed by one of our contacts in the U.S. military Special Operations [...]
