The German Defense Reset: Building out Lift Capabilities to Support Forward Defense
On February 27, 2022, the German Chancellor announced a major re-set of German defense and security…
Read More »Leveraging the Integrated German Lift Force for Enhanced Multi-Domain Operations
The lift fleet is a key enabler for German forward defense. An ability to deliver integrated…
Read More »The United States and Portugal in the Time of the 18th Century Revolutions
Fortuitously for the Portuguese authorities, they were able to hide the Minas Conspiracy from international attention.…
Read More »The war in Ukraine, Escalation and its Potential Global Consequences
Russia clearly started the war in Ukraine but from the Russian point of view this has…
Read More »German Forward Defense, Basing Mobility and How the CH-53K Can Help
It is fair to say that no ground combat force is working harder on mobile basing…
Read More »Taking a Hard Look at the Challenge of Funding the Australian Defence Strategic Review
Dominating the debate on Australia’s defence-capability development is a long list of expensive new weapons to…
Read More »Additional CH-53K Operational Capabilities Which Fit Right In with German Forward Defense
If this was the Cold War, where the primary focus was really upon moving support around…
Read More »Direct Fire Support Weapons (DFSW) Course
A range of heavy weapon and anti-armour capabilities were developed by the 6th and 8th/9th Battalion,…
Read More »Imagined Republics: The United States of America, France, and Brazil (1776–1792)
Editor’s Note: Professor Kenneth Maxwell recently completed his research on the “global revolution” from the United…
Read More »Putin and Shaping a Way Ahead with Russia
During my flight from LA to Sydney, I had time to read Philip Short’s more than…
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