* US top brass say that ISIL is winning its way to defeat [Politico]. * WaPo: Serious disagreements remain in U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State. * RAND Corporation is attempting to draw lessons from 13 years of war and recommends a similar...
RFS Steregushchy(click to view full) Our reader survey is in your email box, and we really want to hear from you because we have great readers. Back on Sept 18/14, Daily Rapid Fire said: “Russian Prime Minister Medvedev gave government backing [Moscow Times] to...
* Back in January Global Times wrote about work reportedly underway in China to build destroyer-sized patrol ships. Back then Chuck Hill speculated [CIMSEC] that such big ships could be used for more offensive purposes. China Defense Blog has purported pictures of the...
VBCI(click to view full) Many European countries are abandoning tracked APCs entirely, for good or ill, and France is joining that trend by replacing its existing tracked AMX-10Ps with the 8×8 wheeled Vehicule Blinde de Combat d’Infanterie (Armored Infantry...
* American officials said on Sunday that Turkey had agreed to let coalition forces use its military bases to launch attacks against ISIS. But the Turks deny [Al Arabiya] that this agreement encompasses the use of the Incirlik airbase and seem to have a smaller...