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He no doubt is right, but his motivation is to protect his own "pulpit" and nickel and dime the services weapons suppliers to death, LockMart, his constant "dinging" is almost pathetic, and always "self serving"!

No, I don't believe we should pursue a "block buy" at this stage, but I'm afraid that the Senate Armed Services Committee is populated by opportunists, I think McCain needs to go, he is no longer objective nor is he effective. The Zumwalt needs to be fixed!

Senator McCain either hung out with the wrong group of politicians or the special interests groups got to him.o_O
 

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Le général Michael Flynn, futur conseiller à la sécurité de Trump: « un dingue...»
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General Michael Flynn, future Trump safety advisor: "a crazy ..."
The appointment of General Michael Flynn as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor (NSC) arouses some reservations in French military circles. "It's a crazy," says a general officer who has rubbed shoulders with him in recent years. "He has spent his entire career in intelligence and has developed a complicated vision," he adds.

This opinion is also shared in American circles. A good connoisseur of this universe explains that this appointment is "a catastrophe". "Flynn is excellent at the tactical and operational level, but totally lacking in strategic judgment" ( "theater-stategic and grand-strategic levels").

His analuses are without nuances, for example when he explains that "Islam is a political ideology that lies behind an ideology" - "it is like a cancer".

Michael Flynn, 58, belongs to the category of military "chemically pure" whose political sense is probably not the first quality. Michael Flynn entered the US Army in 1981 and has effectively conducted his entire career in the intelligence specialty. He served at the 82nd Airborne and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) before heading the DIA, the military intelligence agency, from which he was fired by the Obama administration. He has been involved in operations in Grenada, Haiti and especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Flynn left active service in 2014. Long Democrat, he joined the Trump team in the last campaign.

Other military personnel could be appointed to important posts, such as Generals Petraeus and Mattis, much more respected by their French counterparts.
Flynn as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor

Can' t to be Secretary of Defense coz get retired in 2014 and according the law necessary 7 years.
I think initialy planned him and not the other Brat or other o_O

NB : I don' t think Jura answer.. ! however I am innocent :) but things much more grave i let's stupidities...
 
well the points of Yesterday at 10:20 PM
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Le général Michael Flynn, futur conseiller à la sécurité de Trump: « un dingue...»
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General Michael Flynn, future Trump safety advisor: "a crazy ..."
The appointment of General Michael Flynn as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor (NSC) arouses some reservations in French military circles. ...
... etc. have been, first, it's possible:

"... the retired Army lieutenant general is not eligible to take over the top Pentagon post for five more years due to his military service. But he could get a waiver from Congress to serve in the post, or step into a host of other prominent roles, such as CIA director."
Who will be Trump's secretary of defense?
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and, second,
Once In Intelligence, Always In Intelligence
I guess:
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(if you want, search google with
mike+flynn+in+moscow+picture
and you may find for example
Michael Flynn & Russia: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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so I'm not exactly surprised by "some reservations in French military circles" I quoted above ... something which is obviously important in
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There's no way Flynn could get the 7 year waiver (Mattis can because he commands a lot of bipartisan appeal), his pro Russian shenanigans would likely cost the support of McCain and Graham, and at least a couple other Republican senators.
 

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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit - Sri Lanka Theater Security Cooperation.

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If you want to be the best, you have to train harder than the rest. There's no better way for the world's newest Marine Corps to learn how than from a Marine Corps with 241 years of proven excellence. Take a look at 11th MEU Marines and Sailors training with the newly formed Sri Lanka Marine Corps during their Theater Security Cooperation exchange in Trincomalee.

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During emergencies or conflicts, militaries can surge people, they can surge equipment, but they cannot surge trust. You cannot surge the experience of working with another nation or the bonds created by sharing each other's culture. Check out our Marines interacting with the newly formed Sri Lankan Marine Corps on and off the PT field.

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On a side note: I hope the USAF will assist SL in upgrading the SLAF fleet.
 
Friday at 8:56 AM
now It's official: Donald Trump has chosen Gen. James Mattis for defense secretary

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You might not think a man nicknamed “Mad Dog” would put America’s allies at ease. But that’s the buzz here at the Reagan Library’s
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, where
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‘s choice of
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to run the Pentagon met with enthusiastic praise from the right, from the left, and from overseas.

It looks like the retired four-star’s motto for his Marines in
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— “No better friend, no worse enemy” — is true of the man himself. Our allies may be at best nonplussed by Trump, but they know what to make of Mattis because they’ve worked and fought alongside him.

“We have a lot of military personnel who have experience working with him,” Norwegian defense minister
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told the
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to both Afghanistan and Iraq). Soon after Mattis was picked, she said, she started getting celebratory texts from members of the Norwegian military, especially members of her country’s special forces, who worked with Mattis particularly closely.

“I’m looking forward to working with him, as are our military, who know him very well,” said the UK’s
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,
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. Fallon pointed out to reporters that the general served alongside European allies as both NATO’s
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and as chief of US Central Command.

In both those jobs,
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to the importance of allies and partners, said
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. That the US is “ally rich” while rivals like
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and
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are “ally poor” is a great strategic advantage, and Mattis is “very focused” on cultivating that advantage, Sullivan told the conference, before pledging to work for a speedy confirmation.

“Anybody named ‘mad dog’ is gonna get my vote,” said
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to loud laughter. Nicknames aside, though, “he’s one of the most sophisticated thinkers in the defense world I’ve ever met,” Graham continued. This is especially high praise given the senator’s scathing past criticism of Trump: The president-elect’s appointees don’t get a free pass from Graham.

In particular, Graham continued, having Mattis as Defense Secretary means “we’re going to have a different relationship with the Arab world and Iran.” Picking Mattis, he said, is “a signal to the Arabs” that the US is about to
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, whom our Sunni Arab allies dread.

By some reports, Mattis may have even lost his job at CENTCOM because he was too hawkish on Iran for the Obama Administration, which was laboring on a
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with the Iranians at the time. “That’s one of the reasons [for] having a man like Gen. Mattis on board to be secretary of defense,” said former Vice-President Dick Cheney, citing the news stories approvingly. “He fully understands those threats.”

Of course, the idea that Mattis might be hawkish on Iran
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to everyone. Nor will endorsement from Cheney, one of the primary authors of the Iraq war now entering its 13th year. Yet even
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, an outspoken Democrat — albeit one with his own painful differences with the Obama White House — endorsed Mattis without reservation.

“Jim Mattis, having worked for me as CENTCOM commander, is a great soldier [sic], somebody who really understands defense, very thoughtful,” said the former secretary of defense. “I’m pleased that he [Trump] appointed somebody like Gen. Mattis,” Panetta continued. Panetta couldn’t help adding, “I hope he appoints somebody at Secretary of State who understands the issues” — clearly implying that Mattis does understand them.

What about the appointment of a recently retired military officer as Secretary of Defense, a position meant to embody civilian control of the armed forces? Well, replied Panetta, the Senate will have to waive the requirement that any officer have spent at least seven years in civilian life before becoming SecDef, and that process will be a useful opportunity to discuss the principle of civilian control and make sure everyone gets it, including Mattis on the off chance he doesn’t already.

But the vote itself should be an easy yes, Panetta continued — at least for Mattis: There might not be the same willingness to waive the seven-year rule for somebody else. That said, the rule itself is somewhat arbitrary.

“Who the hell are we kidding?” Panetta exclaimed to laught. “Seven years, where the hell did that come from?… Somebody figured in seven years, ‘oh, you’ve become a civilian’?”

You can take the man out of the military, in other words, but after decades of service, you can’t take the military out of the man. In many cases, including Mattis’, those years in uniform teach skills that are the exact opposite of the pop-culture stereotype of generals in general, and Marines in particular, as cigar-chomping, tough-talking, perpetually snarling human bulldogs.

It’s important to remember that since the birth of the Republic, when George Washington relied on
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for victory, high-level command has been as much about international diplomacy as it is about military strategy. (War is the extension of global politics by other means). Much like Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander in
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, Mattis’ job at CENTCOM in particular required cajoling, coercing, and reassuring independent-minded allies.

Barking orders might work back at base in the US , but it won’t get you far with an
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. Mattis may have the image of the hard-nosed, blunt-talking Marine, with nicknames like “Mad Dog” and “Warrior Monk,” but the real man is more complex. To do his job, Mattis sometimes needed to speak softly, even while he carried a big stick.

That’s a principle Mattis’s new boss would do well to take to heart in his ongoing
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from real estate tycoon to reality TV star to
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to
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of the most powerful military in the world.

“We’re quite careful in Europe to distinguish between
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and what an administration actually does in practice,” the UK’s Fallon told reporters. “
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,” Fallon continued, quoting Mario Cuomo. ” I’m not going to accuse Donald Trump of poetry, but, you know, we have to wave off some of the campaign rhetoric.”
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now I read Air Force Seeks Virtual Elements in Flight Exercises to Heighten Realism, Complexity
With live training alone unable to provide the complex scenarios meant to push the F-35 to its limits, the US Air Force is banking on a suite of cutting-edge technologies that will fuse virtual and constructive elements into live exercises.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is about halfway through the technology demonstration phase of the Secure Live, Virtual and Constructive Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) program, which will secure the technologies needed to give pilots as close of an experience as they can get to an actual battle.

The program is set to begin demonstrating the system aboard F-15E Eagles and Navy F/A-18s in 2018, but the technology probably won’t be ready for the F-35 and other fifth-generation aircraft until the mid 2020s, said Maj. Gen. Robert McMurry, AFRL commander.

“We’ve learned over the past that our training systems are not up to the task that we have,” he said during a Nov. 29 keynote speech at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education (I/ITSEC) conference in Orlando. “The cost of bringing live training environments and exercise environments to the level of fidelity that we really need to simulate what we would expect to be a conflict environment is probably cost prohibitive.”

Live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training has become a buzzword in the simulation industry over the past couple years, but SLATE is not about merely developing the capability for LVC assets to train together, said Dave “Moses” Noah, SLATE program manager at AFRL. A true LVC environment uses virtual and constructive elements to make live training as realistic as possible, enabling highly complex and advanced scenarios.

When the Air Force conducts live training today, there are elements of make believe that keep the pilot from having a truly immersive experience. For instance, an F-15E flying against an F-16 functioning as an aggressor aircraft will still see an F-16 on its radar shooting American weapons, he told Defense News.

But once SLATE is integrated into the fleet, that F-15E will be able to see the F-16 as a MiG-29, or any other adversary aircraft, on all of its sensors and displays. The idea is to more accurately replicate the conditions of battle, including simulating various environments, adversary weapons and other systems not in the US inventory.

"When we take off, go around the area and point at each other, I have the radar cross section signature of a MiG-29, I have all of the radar emissions of a MiG-29, so when I lock him up, he doesn't see on his radar warning receiver a symbol for an F-16. He sees a MiG-29,” Noah said.

"The first time that he knows that I'm not a MIG-29 is finally, at let's say 2.1 miles, gets a visual on me,” he said. "Up until then, he doesn't know."

AFRL is overseeing the development of three key technologies for the program: a radio waveform that can manage the unprecedented throughput of data between the different LVC assets, high-level data encryption that keeps sensitive information like radar signatures from proliferating, and a multi-level security system that allows different data to be passed to US and international assets depending on the level of classification.

The waveform, called the Fifth Generation Advanced Training Waveform (5GATW) has been fully developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory and performed final flight tests in September, Noah said. During the tests, Lincoln Labs stressed the waveform by passing as much data as possible between ground stations and two aircraft, an L-29 and Dassault Falcon 20 owned by the labs.

Cubic is responsible for the rest of the system, including creating the encryption and security architecture as well as manufacturing a software-defined radio about the size of a smartphone capable of managing and processing the 5GATW, said Mike Knowles, vice president of air ranges. It’s also making the ground support system that will provide connectivity between the LVC elements.

Over the upcoming months, the company will integrate those technologies — along with an antenna, power amplifier and a processor — together into a pod that will be attached to fourth-generation aircraft.

“Inside our labs as systems integrator in San Diego, we’re already putting together the software-defined radio, the waveform we integrated, the multi-level secure architecture and the ground station,” he said. “So in our lab now, we’re at the point where we can do simulated connectivity of the system, so we can test out and verify the communications. The encryption system is already under the NSA [National Security Administration] process for certification.”

During I/ITSEC, the company showcased some of the systems that will be encapsulated into the pod, which will be about the size of an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. For fifth-gen jets like the F-35 and F-22, more engineering will be required to internally install the capability, preserving its low observability. That’s not a part of SLATE's technology demonstration phase and will be done later on when the service starts an acquisition program, but Cubic has proposed some ideas to AFRL on how the core systems could be integrated into the joint strike fighter (JSF).

“For JSF, it’s not going to be that hard. [For] a lot of the SLATE components, the hardware is designed to be able to be able to port into JSF in the future,” said Tim Cockerham, a senior principal systems engineer for Cubic. For instance, some of the technologies used for SLATE could replace older processors or other subsystems that are larger in size.

The Air Force has committed $49 million for the technology development phase, and the Navy plans to add about $20 million of its own funds.

AFRL and Cubic are going to continue testing and developing SLATE over the next year. Three two-week demonstrations at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, which will include Navy participation, are planned in 2018, Noah said.

The first demo, planned for March, involves a couple F-15Es and F/A-18s interfacing with some virtual and constructive players.

“We’re just making sure we have connectivity out on the range at Nellis,” he said.

Another demonstration in May increases the number of actors and the influx of data being exchanged. The capstone event in October will take it up yet another notch: up to 16 live aircraft acting as blue forces, additional live aggressor forces, and then “a classified number” of virtual and constructive forces.

“But it’s going to be a lot because we want to show how much the system can handle,” he said.

Future Acquisition

Once technology development ends, it will be up to the service to spin SLATE into a competitive program of record. That’s not exactly an easy thing to do in this fiscal environment for a capability that will cost billions, and possibly tens of billions, Noah said. However, the service’s Life Cycle Management Center, the acquisition arm of Air Force Materiel Command, has designated employees to help ensure a smooth transition.

“They come to work in our building just to be joined at the hip with what AFRL is doing with SLATE,” he said.

AFRL is already engaged in regular meetings with Air Combat Command — which has been designated the lead command for LVC platforms — and with Lynda Rutledge, the program executive officer for the agile combat support directorate, who is in charge of acquiring simulators.

The acquisition strategy has not been finalized, but “this is going to be multiple programs of record because LVC is so huge,” he said.
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Augmented reality allows that. it would virtually cloak an aggressor in a enemy skin and "heighten reality" I remember a few years back NATO was looking into doing something similar. and shouldn't be to long before they start being able to do it for ground forces to.
 
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