In an effort to dissect the Pentagon’s war strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has requested two secret studies, which, unnamed Pentagon sources tell the Boston Globe, “have found serious deficiencies across the board.” DOD also asked 50 top US counterinsurgency experts to offer their views, bringing them in to a “closed-door meeting” last week. We wonder how all this jibes with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s view that there are no errors just “tactical adjustments.” And, have study participants reviewed Anthony Cordesman’s analysis paper detailing a “litany of errors?”
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.