A series of blasts at airbases deep inside Russia on June 1, 2025, came as a rude awakening to Moscow’s military strategists. The Ukrainian strike at the heart Russia’s strategic bombing capability could also upend the traditional rules of war: It provides smaller military a blueprint for countering a larger nation’s ability to launch airstrikes from deep behind the front lines.
Continue reading “Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web destroyed more than aircraft – it tore apart the old idea that bases far behind the front lines are safe”
- America’s conflict with the Houthis gave the US Navy a taste of high-tempo air defense operations.
- The Navy is using the conflict to inform planning for future maritime wars, like a clash with China.
- One warship captain said a fight in the Pacific would be vastly different from the Red Sea battle.
The US Navy’s exhausting shootout with the Iran-backed Houthis has given American military planners a clearer view into the complexities of high-tempo air defense operations.
Continue reading “A US Navy warship captain said the Red Sea conflict was a ‘knife fight in a phone booth.’ China would be way more challenging.”
Russia has quietly redeployed its Tu-160 strategic bombers to Anadyr airbase in the country’s far east, just 500 kilometers from the U.S. state of Alaska — a move analysts call a paradoxical attempt to protect its aircraft from Ukrainian drone attacks by bringing them closer to its principal geopolitical adversary.
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By Mr. Ronald Kukal
I am forever indebted to the US Navy for the training I received at Imperial Beach California in the 50’s, and at Goodfellow AFB during the early 60’s. That training made a man of me, and believe me I wasn’t that man when I came there. A wide eyed young male, with no idea what was going to happen to me.
Continue reading “I was There When USS LIBERTY was Attacked (Guest Post) Part 2 of 5”
By Mr. Ronald Kukal
Many of us in the Information Warfare and Cryptologic Warfare communities are familiar with the attack on the USS LIBERTY. On June 8 of last year, we marked 58 years since that tragic day. Across the fleet, commands took time to pause and remember. Some honored the occasion by recounting the timeline of events surrounding the attack; others read the names and showed the faces of the fallen, ringing a Navy bell for each life lost.
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NGA puts a “template” on the products that “literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It’s important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the President that they have that knowledge.”
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