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Russia and Putin's plans to break up NATO
by Marc Liebman 23 Sep '26

23 Sep '26

https://understandingwar.org/research/defense-of-europe/what-a-limited-russ… This is very interesting reading. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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New Presidential Helicopter In Use
by Michael G. Brattland 22 Sep '26

22 Sep '26

https://x.com/thenewarea51/status/2102127991463493939MGBrattland Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S23 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone

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New Marine Corps VH-92A Presidential Helicopter
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 21 Sep '26

21 Sep '26

https://youtu.be/im4mQ98sWjE?si=x-GcgHhou13UOSUT https://www.twz.com/air/marine-one-vh-92a-makes-first-operational-use-of-new -white-house-helipad

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FW: Aviation Week :: Top USAF Officer in Europe Outlines Opportunities Amid Modernization
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 21 Sep '26

21 Sep '26

From: Harold Brattland <habrattland(a)arvig.net> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2026 11:11 AM To: Brattland, Mike * <mgbrattland(a)gerlecreek.com> Subject: Aviation Week :: Top USAF Officer in Europe Outlines Opportunities Amid Modernization Check out this site https://aviationweek.com/defense/supply-chain/top-usaf-officer-europe-outli… -- Top USAF Officer in Europe Outlines Opportunities Amid Modernization Brian Everstine <https://aviationweek.com/author/brian-everstine> September 18, 2026 <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/20…> A Hungarian JAS-39 Gripen flies alongside a U.S. Air Force KC-135. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland—A shift by some European nations to more domestically produced aircraft and weapons does not necessarily signify a move away from the U.S. Instead, it shows they are doing what American leadership has requested: Ramp up the industrial base, the top U.S. Air Force officer in the region argues. “What I see them doing is what we’ve asked them to do. We’ve asked them to ramp up the transatlantic defense industrial base, and we’re seeing the nations that have the capacity to do that, they are doing that,” says Lt. Gen. Jason Hinds, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and NATO Allied Air Command. Hinds spoke at the AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference here this week. The shift away from American-produced equipment in recent years has been seen by some as avoiding a reliance on the U.S. amid uncertainty with the Trump administration. Hinds, however, sees this in many ways as an opportunity because it has raised defense spending and production inside NATO and most of the aircraft and weapons are already interoperable with the U.S. He points to Sweden and the SAAB Gripen as an example. “[Sweden is] a new nation into the alliance, right? They’re building new kit all the time, including brand new Gripens. Gripens are interoperable right now with the alliance and they’re using them inside places like Hungary ... Other nations are thinking about buying them,” he says. While the top goal for the U.S. is to have commonality—the Lockheed Martin F-35 and Block 70 F-16, for example, are American and international operators can plug directly in to the existing logistics and operational infrastructure, he says. “If we can’t get commonality, the next thing I ask the nations to do is think about interoperability by design, which means they’re starting to look forward to industry to solve some of the problems,” he says. “And they want to purchase some kit; I ask them to ensure that they’re purchasing kit that we know will be interoperable with NATO standards from the start.” Hinds was responding to a question from Aviation Week about the modernization trend across Europe, including the Global Combat Air Program and new Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) efforts in nations like the UK, Germany and Sweden, among others. The U.S. Air Force and allies in Europe are collaborating on how CCAs could operate in the theater, specifically on increasing integrated air and missile defense capacity in the case of a hostile incursion into NATO territory. “If we have to respond to be able to push a force out, we would have to be able to reduce integrated air defense systems and potentially even attack fielded forces from an opposing nation inside the European theater,” he says. “There are nations that want to be able to incorporate CCAs into the future force design ... and they’re interested in using CCA for dual roles, for defensive missions and then for things like counter-integrated air missile defense systems.” Hinds says there will be experimentation soon in Europe, following the U.S.’s own experimentation, with these tactics. <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/author_thumbnail/public…> Brian Everstine <https://aviationweek.com/author/brian-everstine> Email: brian.everstine(a)aviationweek.com <mailto:brian.everstine@aviationweek.com> Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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ISW on Ukraine
by Marc Liebman 18 Sep '26

18 Sep '26

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-camp… Not what you hear on the national media. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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Another take on the PRC and Iran
by Marc Liebman 16 Sep '26

16 Sep '26

https://jinsa.org/trump-wants-iran-to-fold-xi-jinping-wont-allow-it-heres-h… Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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Latest from ISW on Russian/Putin's aims
by Marc Liebman 16 Sep '26

16 Sep '26

https://understandingwar.org/research/defense-of-europe/the-russian-militar… FYI, Putin has long believed he can win a war with NATO. He has stated several times publicly that he sees NATO as the enemy of Mother Russia. If you read his goals and terms for a deal with Ukraine, they are buried in them. So, while this is nothing new, recent actions by Russia lead me to believe that he is stepping up his “poking” at the NATO to see what it will do. Putin believes NATO, despite its growing support of Ukraine as a paper tiger and that its population has no stomach with a war with Russia. Which leads me to connecting a few other dots. There are indications, getting stronger, of closer coordination between Russia and Iran with the goal of embroiling the U.S. in two major regional conflicts at the same time. Add in PRC’s overhead intelligence support and we have a really ugly situation. BTW, before I retired in September 1993, the U.S. planned on fighting two regional conflicts at the same time. One of my last tasks was revising C7F’s war plans to fight several conflicts at once. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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Targets
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 16 Sep '26

16 Sep '26

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Air Force Announces New Plans To Take Over Defending Its Own Bases From Aerial Attack
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 15 Sep '26

15 Sep '26

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War in Ukraine
by Marc Liebman 13 Sep '26

13 Sep '26

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-camp… This article summarizes the problems Putin has from casualty rates vs. available manpower pools and the fact that the Ukrainians are winning on the battlefield to his oil industry. But what is, at least to this reader, is the map showing how deep into Mother Russia, the Ukrainians hitting Russian oil refineries. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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