Key Developments

Putting the Osprey Safety Record in Perspective

03/13/2024
By Robbin Laird

The question of Osprey safety has been brought to the fore again with the accident last…

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European Arms Production and the War in Ukraine: A March 2024 Update

03/06/2024
By Pierre Tran

Paris – The top executive of Dassault Aviation, builder of the Rafale fighter jet, gave March…

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Putin and the Contest for Europe

02/25/2024
By Robbin Laird

I spent my 1980s deeply involved in the West in the conflict with the Soviet leadership…

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Poland and Ukraine: The Impact of the Grain Dispute

02/24/2024
By Robert Czulda

When in February 2022 the full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine broke out, Poland immediately became…

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Training for the High End Fight: The Perspective from CSG-4

02/23/2024
By Rear Admiral Max "Pepper" McCoy

The Sailors and Marines of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team operate the most advanced…

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Chief of Navy Mark Hammond on the New Australian Government Naval Program

02/22/2024
By Brendan Nicholson

Over decades, a truism has matured that modern technology, surveillance systems and weapons have evolved to…

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Special Reports
03/03/2024
Maritime autonomous systems can be used a variety of ways to support the combat force. My book to...
Book Review
03/15/2024
Brian Morra's second book, The Righteous Arrows, continues the narrative of Russian and American operatives (in the previous book involved in dampening down the threat of nuclear war associated with 1983 events) engaged in adversarial competition. Now the main characters...
Featured Defense System
02/22/2024
By Robbin Laird

The focus on distributed operations – Maritime DO, the USMC EABOs, and the Air Force agile combat employment – fits the capabilities of the Osprey – with its speed, range, air refuelable capability – perfectly. It is both an enabler of distributed operations and a benefactor from such operations. It can create distributed points of operation, and can leverage them. The payload revolution associated with distributed operations is enabling the emergence of a kill web force. Ed Timperlake and I have written a book on the coming of the maritime kill web force and explained in detail the nature of such operations. But a key to being able to do so is the C2-ISR revolution which can proliferate payloads to be inserted in air, ground, space and maritime...

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