Key Developments

2024: America at a Crossroads in the World

09/04/2023
By Robbin Laird

As the United States faces its presidential election in 2024, there seems to very little consideration…

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BRICS-PLUS SIX: From Cohesion to Congruence: New Patterns of Global (Dis)Order

09/04/2023
By Kenneth Maxwell

Lord Jim O’Neill (Baron O’Neill of Gatley) invented the acronym BRIC in 2001 to describe the…

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Re-Thinking the Amphibious Fleet: The Challenge

09/03/2023
By Robbin Laird

There is a major problem with regard to the numbers and availability of the amphibious or…

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The Bomb, the Wagner Group and Russia: The Perspective of Dale Herspring

08/25/2023
By Robbin Laird

Dr. Dale Herspring and I published a book on the Soviet Union and strategic arms control…

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Russian Strategy: The Africa-Ukraine Connection

08/23/2023
By Pippa Malmgren

The Wagner Group in Belarus and Kaliningrad and now getting more aggressive around the Suwalki Gap…

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Obama and His Administration Reconsidered

08/21/2023
By Robbin Laird

In a piece published today by The London Times. Will Lloyd of The New Statesman argued…

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Special Reports
07/27/2023
In Australia and Indo-Pacific Defence: Anchoring a Way Ahead, author and editor of over thirty books, Robbin Laird, brings...
Book Review
09/04/2023
George Galdorisi and Kevin McDonald have a great deal in common. They are both widely published authors, and they previously served in active duty in the U.S. Navy. And, now they want to help other aspiring writers, as they have...
Featured Defense System
09/10/2023
By Robbin Laird

This book describes the coming of the CH-53K Kilo to the USMC and to its first international customer, the Israeli Defence Force. It is based on extensive interviews with the persons involved in the development, testing, build, and maintenance of the new combat air system. For air system it is -- built by the digital thread development and manufacturing approach, the aircraft is designed with maintainability and fleet support in operations as a key focus of the program, If it were called CH-55 instead of the CH-53K perhaps one would get the point that these are very different air platforms, with very different capabilities. What they have in common, by deliberate design, is a similar logistical footprint, so that they could operate similarly off of amphibious ships or...

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