Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- December 29, 2009

Netherlands frigate HrMs Kortenaer (F 807).

Destiny Of The Frigate Pt 1 -- New Wars

The Vanishing Escorts

The days when the modern naval frigate might be seen as a low cost, numbers building alternative to large and pricey missile battleships is long past. Nothing is such stark evidence of this than the 3000 ton gun, helicopter, and missile armed littoral combat ships–LCS Freedom and Independence. On these ships rest all the Navy hopes in rebuilding its drastically shrinking force structure, and defeat low tech enemies such as pirates and smugglers on the High Seas. Except at up to $700 million each they can never be bought in the numbers desired.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs

The Navy name game in 2010 -- The Scoop Deck

Infantry: Littler Things Mean A Lot -- Strategy Page

Bombers Versus Boots -- Ares/Aviation Week

Secret Drones, Telepathic GIs and ‘Miss Atom’: Your Favorite Posts of 2009 -- The Danger Room

Peacekeeper Abuse - a Follow Up -- UN Dispatch

Boeing Thinking Big in India -- DoD Buzz

Report: Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code -- Threat Level

Big Brother is coming: NSA's $1.9 billion cyber spy center a power grab -- Deseret News

A White House intervention for bickering leaders of U.S. intelligence -- L.A. Times

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