EWS Ukrane/Russia Flashcards
Marine Corp role in deterance
to deter adversaries below the threshold of armed conflict and, when necessary, to engage in armed conflict and force a return to competitino on favorable terms
NDS
National Defense Strategy
what type of change is inevitable when modernizing
deep institutional change is inevitable when confornting modernization. that change is hard. urgency of change/institutional reform/innovation is necessary b/c the chararacter of warfare driven by societal/tech change demands we move rapidly to a
C4ISR
C2, ISR
Communications, computers
MPSR
Mature Precision Strike REgime
USS Mason
a DDG.
Oct 2016, they were in teh bab-el0Mandeb strait and were targeted by 2 missles fired from Houthi-controlled territory. they fell short and fell into the water. the Mason fired two missiles and one RIM missle to intercept . unsure if our missles hit or if the Houti ones felt into the water on their own
-a few days later, more missiles were fired and they successfully intercepted the second missile at a distance of 8miles away so that was the firzst time in history a n inbound anti-ship missile with a SAM in actual self-defense. US attacked 3 radar sites in Houthi-held territory which had been involved and they were destroyed
what drives high-end competition in the air domanin
advances in range, precision, and lethality