Introduction Submarine is the modern capital ship - primary ship for control of the sea against enemy navy. Only submarines can establish control of the sea, clearing it of the enemy ships and opening way for surface transport craft to carry ground troops into an area of operations. Carriers are primarly useful for support of … Continue reading NATO navies proposal revised
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NATO navies proposal
Current state Ship costs CARRIERS / AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIPS Nimitz: 6,93 billion USD Ford: 9 billion USD Wasp: 750 million USD Invincible: 832 million USD Charles de Gaulle: 3,7 billion USD Mistral: 530 million USD Cavour: 2,06 billion USD San Giorgio replacement: 481 million USD Juan Carlos: 638 million USD Galicia: 260 million … Continue reading NATO navies proposal
NATO air forces proposal revised
Current state As of fall of 2013, NATO member states were Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Air forces were as follows: Albania: no fixed-wing aircraft or attack helicopters Belgium: … Continue reading NATO air forces proposal revised
NATO air forces proposal
Current state As of fall of 2013, NATO member states were Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Air forces were as follows: Albania: no fixed-wing aircraft or attack helicopters Belgium: … Continue reading NATO air forces proposal
Applyig John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict on War in Afghanistan
Main point of Boyd's presentation is following: One should operate at faster tempo than opponent and get inside his OODA loop, causing confunsion This can be achieved through generation of rapidly changing environment and distorting adversary's observation of it. Guerrilla warfare is basically based around it, denying opponent knowledge of where guerrilla forces are, as … Continue reading Applyig John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict on War in Afghanistan
On US defense budget
While Chinese and Russian defense budgets are incomplete, so is the US defense budget. In reality, US defense sprending is between 1 and 1,4 trillion USD a year, that is 6,3 to 8,8 % of US GDP of 15,974 trillion USD as opposed to the base budget of 711 billion USD in 2012 (or 4,5 … Continue reading On US defense budget
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