by George Vişan, November 1, 2016 The 12 multi-role aircraft acquired lately by Romania represent a huge leap forward in terms of capability for the Romanian Air Force. This brief discusses the political, policy and practical motivations, benefits and risks, as well as the ups and downs of a drawn out acquisition process. Despite a…
by Octavian Manea, July 3, 2015 Last week’s reunion of Defense Ministers at the NATO HQ took stock of the Alliance progress in implementing the decisions taken at the Newport summit last year. The NATO spearhead force became operational (under the official name of VJTF – Very High Readiness Joint Task Force), an intermediary version of…
By Armand Gosu and Octavian Manea, June 22, 2015 The new National Defense Strategy represents Romania’s response to the regional crisis triggered by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Ukraine. The fact that the Strategy is called one of defense, rather than security, is not the result of a simple confusion of…
By Octavian Manea, June 20, 2015 “Anti-access is not just an Asian affair,” Richard Fontaine and Julie Smith recently concluded.[1] “The capabilities that China and Russia are developing are similar,” notes General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[2] A2/AD (anti-access/area denial) systems no longer represent a reality exclusively associated with the spaces…
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