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Survey of American Defense Execs Shows Discouraged View of Govt Acquisition

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* A recent survey of 340 defense acquisition executives showed there’s a widespread sense of pessimism about how government acquisitions are run. Ukraine/Russia * Over the weekend Russian forces overrun Ukraine’s military presence in Crimea: FT | Kyiv Post. The circumstances of the Ukrainian retreat from the peninsula remain somewhat muddled. * Russia also built up a significant troop presence right next to Ukraine’s eastern border. * Germany suspended its military contracts with Russia, which the latter found “not constructive.” * Leon Aron from the conservative American Enterprise Institute: the dangerous future of Putin’s regime . Another clash at the Turkey/Syria Border * Turkey’s government, otherwise busy blocking access to Twitter, said they shot a Syrian jet violating their airspace [video]. Italian Vulcano * Earlier this month Italy’s Navy test fired Vulcano ballistic extended range projectiles. This is part of a larger trend toward long-range shells from standard 127mm and 76mm naval guns. Much less expensive than the DDG-1000 approach. Pondering the Future of Energy * Mark Finley from BP discussed the company’s Energy Outlook 2035 [PDF] at a recent CSIS event. The company expects oil, coal and gas to converge to the same share of energy use by then, […]

* A recent survey of 340 defense acquisition executives showed there’s a widespread sense of pessimism about how government acquisitions are run.

Ukraine/Russia

* Over the weekend Russian forces overrun Ukraine’s military presence in Crimea: FT | Kyiv Post. The circumstances of the Ukrainian retreat from the peninsula remain somewhat muddled.

* Russia also built up a significant troop presence right next to Ukraine’s eastern border.

* Germany suspended its military contracts with Russia, which the latter found “not constructive.”

* Leon Aron from the conservative American Enterprise Institute: the dangerous future of Putin’s regime .

Another clash at the Turkey/Syria Border

* Turkey’s government, otherwise busy blocking access to Twitter, said they shot a Syrian jet violating their airspace [video].

Italian Vulcano

* Earlier this month Italy’s Navy test fired Vulcano ballistic extended range projectiles. This is part of a larger trend toward long-range shells from standard 127mm and 76mm naval guns. Much less expensive than the DDG-1000 approach.

Pondering the Future of Energy

* Mark Finley from BP discussed the company’s Energy Outlook 2035 [PDF] at a recent CSIS event. The company expects oil, coal and gas to converge to the same share of energy use by then, with oil use losing a lot to gas while coal declines slightly. Video below:

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