Thursday, January 28, 2010

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 28, 2010

B-2 and B-52 Bombers

Global Strike Command Set to Take Control of Dual-Capable Bombers -- Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON -- As part of an U.S. Air Force effort to overhaul management of its nuclear weapons, the service's new Global Strike Command is preparing to assume oversight next week for the nation's B-2 and B-52 dual-capable bombers (see GSN, Dec. 2, 2009).

The Air Force is facing new questions, though, about how well a new command structure over the nuclear-armed bombers can prepare crews for an operational role they are expected to play much more frequently: dropping conventional ordnance.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

QDR Kills Two MTW Strategy; Helos, UAVs Are Stars -- DoD Buzz

QDR Draft: DoD Will Not 'Prop Up' Poorly Run Defense Firms -- Defense News

Defense Review Boosts Small Ships, Small Planes, Drones -- War Is Boring

France test-fires submarine-launched missile -- Space War

UK's FRES Vehicle a Shambles -- Aviation Week

LCS Alternative Weekly -- New Wars

Fixing Australia’s broken sub fleet -- ELP Defens(c)e Blog

British Defence Spending: Divorced from Reality -- Chatham House

Contractors Working Detention Ops in Afghanistan -- Ares/Aviation Week

Handheld X-Ray Vision -- Strategy Page

The Greening of the Pentagon’s Master Strategy Review -- The Danger Room

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