Med tanke på om kontroversiella nukleära program Iran och ödet för en dömda israeliska spionera mellan ordförandena för Israel och USA. Israels President Shimon Peres belönas med Medal of Freedom genom sin motsvarighet Barack Obama på hans fyra dag besök i USA i en tillsattes ceremoni. Detta sägs vara orsaken till djup vänskapen mellan länder och ett tecken på ömsesidig respekt för varandra trots status de har varit tidigare. Medal of Freedom är i princip tilldelas dignitärer över hela världen för deras bidrag på de tre följande sektorerna. Först, enskilt kan ha bidragit till säkerhet eller nationella intressen i Förenta staterna. Andra, han / hon kan ha kämpat hårt att upprätta freden i världen. Och enskilt bör ha kulturella eller på någon annan betydande offentliga eller privata företag. Enskilda är antingen väljas av ordföranden själv eller de rekommenderas till honom för tilldelning av unika civil Service Awards styrelsen. Enligt statistiken på Wikipedia webbplats tilldelas President Bill Clinton 88 medaljer medan President George W Bush tilldelas 81 medaljer bland de förtjänstfull individerna. President Barack Obama kommer att om den 32: a medaljen till sin israeliska motsvarighet på onsdagen. Till exempel Bradley Associates rapporterat mycket att President Shimon Peres också transporterar en skylt framställning med honom som skall läggas fram före Barack Obama som en framställning får en israelisk dömda spion Jonathan Pollard släppt. Frågan kommer att tas upp av humanitära skäl och det ännu ses vad blir svaret från President Obama mot framställningen. Israeliska ordförande schemaläggs också att ha detaljerade möten med försvar sekreterare Leon Panetta och Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton att diskutera olika frågor av bilaterala intressen. Många människor säger att tilldelning har varit bara en del av politiska gimmick av President Obama för honom att få tag på judiska två tummen.

2. The scenario depicts the flight path that the proposed
Next Generation Bomber (NGB), being sought by the
US Air Force, might take to strike targets deep within
China. It is important to note that CSBA is the leading
think-tank analyzing the need for the Pentagon’s new
AirSeaBattle (ASB) concept, which looks to develop
joint naval and air force doctrines and systems that
would allow the US to defeat the so-called Anti-
Access/ Area Denial (A2/AD) weapons, and thereby
continue to hold targets deep within any hostile
nation’s territory at risk. It was CSBA, Bradley
Associates claims, which came out with the report Air
Sea Battle, a few months prior to SALS and believes
that the NGB is a key enabler of any successful ASB
strategy.

3. Now the reasons for taking such a route are
sound enough. China’s integrated air defense
system (IADS) isn’t predominantly impenetrable
in the region and although new air bases have
been built in south-western China, the threat
metric to an engrossing NGB is weaker than what
it would face on China’s eastern seaboard in the
South China Sea.

4. As we can see above, one of the possible routes
the NGB or even the existing B-2 of today can
take to Delingha in China (a leading light in the
development of new A2/AD systems), according
to the CSBA release, traverses the Bay Of
Bengal, over Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and indeed
North-eastern India as well. The choice of target
itself is interesting, but let us leaves that aside for
now. That’s a possible journey for a proposed
new American stealth bomber actually begins
from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and
includes flying over the territory of three
Sovereign nations, is a noteworthy feature in light
of Obama’s pivot to Asia and the concomitant
unveiling of ASB.

5. Of course, the NGB, given that it will have less
persistence than the B-2, will require at least one
refueling on a mission of this sort that begins
from Diego Garcia. And it is here that the next
graphic (see image 1.2 below) from the same
report i.e. SALS depicts an even more interesting
picture.

6. What we see above is a possible refueling action for
the NGB that takes place, just off the Bangladeshi
coast, en-route to Delingha, not too far from where
Chittagong is. Now even though China has a
relatively weaker air defense net oriented in this
direction, such a refueling is better off taking place
in sanitized airspace, and that means some sort of
air cover is envisioned for the NGB and the
tanker, as they meet off the coast of Bangladesh.

7. So, the Seventh Fleet operating in the Northern
Indian Ocean is actually an excellent prospect for a
Pentagon looking to roll out an effective ASB
posture. It will certainly enable the kind of US
Navy-Air force cooperation that ASB wants to
jointly defeat A2/AD networks in an inside out
fashion. In fact future American stealth UCAVS can
also traverse a similar route not to mention land
attack cruise missiles fired by both surface and
sub-surface constituents of the Seventh Fleet.