Jane's Defence Weekly

Interviews

*Interview: Air Commodore Stu Atha, former Air Component Commander, Afghanistan/AOC 83 EAG, UK Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Stu Atha of the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has recently returned from a nine-month tour as both Air Component Commander (ACC) ...
15-Mar-2010

*Interview: Gabriel Silva, Colombian Defence Minister
Colombia has espoused a new strategy for combating the guerrilla forces and narcoterrorism that have plagued the Andean country for years and its top ...
04-Mar-2010

*Interview: Colonel Michael Howard, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division commander, outgoing Task Force Yukon commander
Interdicting explosives along Afghanistan's eastern border is a key part of securing population centres, according to Task Force Yukon's outgoing commander. During his tenure...
01-Mar-2010

*Interview: Bob Ainsworth, UK Secretary of State for Defence
The UK's Defence Green Paper - 'Adaptability and Partnership: Issues for a Strategic Defence Review' - was published on 3 February, opening up discussions ...
23-Feb-2010

*Interview: Air Vice-Marshal Timo Anderson, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, UK Royal Air Force
For much of January the UK's service chiefs traded rhetorical punches in a 'media war' over the future direction of defence spending and military ...
15-Feb-2010

*Interview: Dr Sandy Wilson, vice-president of Defence, ADS
As the UK gears up for a series of strategic defence policy overhauls, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) should consider devising a new procurement ...
08-Feb-2010

*Interview: Jim Morrison, chief executive officer of the Metrix Consortium
The UK's GBP12 billion (USD9 billion) Defence Training Review (DTR) took another step forward with the signing of an Early Works (EW) contract ...
29-Jan-2010

*Interview: Major General Richard Rowe Jr, director of the Iraq training and advisory mission, United States Forces - Iraq, advising and training
Amajor focus of United States Forces - Iraq, Advising and Training (USF-I, A&T) - formerly MNSTC-I - in 2010 is ensuring that efforts to ...
25-Jan-2010

*Interview: Andrew Pringle, President for International Government and Defence, KBR
When in August 2009 KBR announced the formation of its Government, Defence and Infrastructure Business Group, Andrew Pringle was appointed as the group's Senior ...
18-Jan-2010

Interview: Admiral Giampaolo di Paola, chairman of NATO's Military Committee
Among the alliance's endless committees and work groups, few have a wider remit - or by tradition a lower, behind-the-scenes profile - than NATO's ...
11-Jan-2010

*Interview: Major General Jozsef Horvath, Head of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence Development and Logistics Agency
Increased military co-operation with neighbouring countries is a key priority for the Hungarian Armed Forces. Outlining some of the Hungarian defence establishment's recent projects, ...
31-Dec-2009

*General Walter Sharp, commander of US forces in Korea (USFK)
Despite a flurry of North Korean provocations this year, Washington is moving ahead with its plan to transfer the command of military operations in...
22-Dec-2009

*Interview: Dr Stephen Gumley, Chief Executive Officer of Australia's Defence Materiel Organisation
With AUD100 billion (USD92 billion) worth of programmes and sustainment under management, Dr Stephen Gumley faces the twin challenges of completing big-ticket projects within ...
01-Dec-2009

*Interview: Lieutenant General Jim Dutton, Deputy Commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force
The biggest threat to strategic success in Afghanistan is the loss of political will by the West, according to the deputy commander of NATO's ...
26-Nov-2009

*Interview: Colonel Lee-Volker Cox, Director of Operations and Exercises, US 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic)
As Director of Operations and Exercises for the US 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Colonel Lee-Volker Cox is responsible for the readiness and ...
23-Nov-2009

*Interview: Major General Mart de Kruif, Former Commander of ISAF's Regional Command - South
In southern Afghanistan the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has regained the initiative over the Taliban insurgents, according to the outgoing commander of ...
10-Nov-2009

*Interview: Commodore Steve Chick, Commander, Standing NATO Maritime Group 2
NATO and its allies have succeeded in "throwing a perimeter fence" around the piracy-ravaged Gulf of Aden, but a long-term solution to the problem ...
09-Nov-2009

*Interview: Vivek Lall, vice-president and Indian country head, Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing
Driven by a requirement to grow its presence in a country that promises significant levels of military expenditure over the next 20 years, Boeing ...
03-Nov-2009

*Interview: Ian Cliff, chairman of the OSCE's Forum for Security Co-operation
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) are today's true weapons of mass destruction (WMD), according to the chairman of the Organization for Security and ...
22-Oct-2009

*Interview: General Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin, Malaysian Chief of Defence Force
The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) is in the midst of transforming itself under the Fourth Dimension MAF (4-D MAF) capability plan in order to ...
15-Oct-2009

*Interview: Luvsanvandan Bold, Mongolian defence minister
Mongolia will maintain its traditional defence co-operation with Russia while expanding its military ties with the United States, China and other countries, the country's ...
08-Oct-2009

*Interview: Vice Admiral Russ Crane, Australia's Chief of Navy
Appointed as Australia's Chief of Navy in July 2008, Vice Admiral Russ Crane faces the dual challenge of implementing the wide-reaching aspirations of a ...
01-Oct-2009

*Interview: Domingo Urena, Airbus Military managing director
When Domingo Urena was appointed as the new managing director of Airbus Military in February, he pledged to get its troubled A400M military transport ...
22-Sep-2009

*Interview: General Ricardo Ortega, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Air Force
Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Air Force General Ricardo Ortega is satisfied with the pace of the service's Bicentennial Plan, which involves replacing and upgrading ...
17-Sep-2009

*Interview: General Sverre Diesen, Norway's Chief of Defence
The increasing strategic importance of the High North is driving Norway's move towards a maritime and air heavy structure grounded on intelligence and situational ...
11-Sep-2009

*Interview: Bob McGuiness, Chief Executive, Serco Defence, Science and Technology
Having recently announced that its international defence revenues increased by 33 per cent to GBP499 million (USD808 million) during the first half of 2009 ...
03-Sep-2009

*Interview: Major General Benjamin Dolorfino Commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command
Destroying the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) "as soon as possible" is the primary focus of the Armed Forces of the ...
01-Sep-2009

*Interview: Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission
The "primary response" to prevent further redundancies in Europe's defence industries is "to move towards a better integrated and more competitive EU market" for ...
20-Aug-2009

*Interview: Marwan Lahoud, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of EADS
In June 2007, when Marwan Lahoud moved from the helm of European missile house MBDA to become the chief strategy and marketing officer of ...
14-Aug-2009

*Interview: Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Pakistan Air Force Chief of the Air Staff
A year after the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was called to join the country's military effort in combating Taliban militants along the border with ...
06-Aug-2009

*Interview: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Outgoing NATO Secretary General
The past few months have seen "interesting developments" in the NATO/Russia relationship. However, negotiations with Georgia over potential membership will continue unabated, outgoing NATO ...
31-Jul-2009

*Interview: Admiral Pierre-François Forissier, French Chief of the Naval Staff
As President Nicolas Sarkozy officially inaugurated France's first new foreign military base in 50 years in Abu Dhabi on 1 April, many viewed it ...
21-Jul-2009

*Interview: Byun Moo-keun, Commissioner, South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration
When the South Korean government formed the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) three years ago it tasked the agency with continuing the country's twin ...
15-Jul-2009

*Interview: General Bantz J Craddock, outgoing NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
NATO needs faster decision-making for urgent operational requirements and the political guts to aggressively target Afghanistan's illegal drug trade, whose revenues support the Taliban ...
09-Jul-2009

*Interview: Dr Taylor Lawrence, president, Raytheon Missile Systems
The president of Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) has credited the "programme agnostic" nature of the business with helping to sustain the division through US ...
30-Jun-2009

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