Author Vago Muradian

VAGO'S NOTEBOOK
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For years, China hawks have warned that Beijing is playing a very sophisticated multipronged strategy make good its territorial claims in the region.

Two of China’s levers are well known – an increasingly powerful military to intimidate its neighbors and tremendous economic leverage that it can use we either reward or punishment.

The third, according to analysts, is Beijing’s financial support for politicians across the region who once elected will steer their nations toward a pro-China path. Russia has employed similar tactics, bankrolling alternative movements across Europe to undermine NATO and the EU.

And the new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is one of those candidates.

Military & Aerospace History
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On Oct. 25, 1946 — A captured V-2 rocket launched from the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range, N.M., takes the first ever picture of the Earth from space. The rocket was fitted with a 35mm camera that took pictures every 1.5 seconds and reached an altitude of more than 65 miles. The launch is part of the Small Steps Program to take pictures from space. Before the rocket launch, highest altitude images of the planet were taken from the Explorer II ballon that in 1935 reached a record manned height of 13.7 miles.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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This fourth report in the series continues the long-term effort to bring data-driven decision making to acquisition policy. This report demonstrates that the Department of Defense (DoD) is making continuing progress in improving acquisition. The overall series presents strong evidence that the DoD has moved—and is moving—in the right direction with regard to the cost, schedule, and quality of the products we deliver. There is, of course, much more that can be done to improve defense acquisition, but with the 5-year moving average of cost growth on our largest and highest-risk programs at a 30-year low, it is hard to argue that we are not moving in the right direction.

International Seapower Symposium
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Adm. Paul Zukunft, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, discusses modernization programs, missions and the implications of climate change with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Zukunft was among the naval and coast guard leaders from more than 100 nations to attend the 22nd International Seapower Symposium Sept. 21-23 at the US Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

Military & Aerospace History
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On Oct. 24, 1944 — Cdr. David McCampbell, USN, the commander of Carrier Air Group 15 aboard USS Essex (CV-9), attacking a force of 60 Japanese aircraft — along with his wingman — shot down nine enemy aircraft, a single-mission record for an American pilot during World War II. When he returned to Essex from the 95-minute battle, his Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was out of ammunition and almost out of gas.

AUSA 2016
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Nguyen Trinh, the director if international business integration at AM General, discusses the company’s new Hawkeye Mobile Weapon Systems that mounts a Mandus 105mm howitzer on an M1152A1 Humvee with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on Oct. 4 at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and trade show. The meeting was held Oct. 3-5 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

AUSA 2016
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J.D. Johnson, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who is now Raytheon’s vice president for business development for US Army and Special Operations Forces programs, discusses cyber, Army programs and investment priorities with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on Oct. 5 at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and trade show. The meeting was held Oct. 3-5 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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