Military And Intelligence News Briefs — December 29, 2009
Netherlands frigate HrMs Kortenaer (F 807).
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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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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