An Update from the Chief of Navy’s Seapower Conference, October 2019
In this discussion with John Conway, Dr. Robbin Laird discusses the shaping of an integrated distributed…
Read More »Building a 21st Century Australian Navy: A Major Part of the Re-set of Australian Infrastructure for Defense and Security
Currently, I am attending the Chief of the Royal Australian Navy’s Seapower conference being held in…
Read More »An Indian View of Global Alliances
In an article by John Grady published by USNI News on October 1, 2019, the author…
Read More »Understanding Mr. Putin: The Operative in the Kremlin
Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy of the Brookings Institution have written an interesting assessment of the…
Read More »The Putin Narrative: Reviving the Russia Idea Across 11 Time Zones
Although the Obama Administration referred to Russia as a “regional power,” with 11 time zones reaching…
Read More »The Brazilian Amazon and Globalization
The UN climate action summit in New York City was held on Monday 23rd September. Two…
Read More »The Putin Thread and the Phases of Putinism Since 2000
Steven Lee Myers has written a comprehensive perspective on the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin.…
Read More »The Royal Navy Downselects the Arrowhead 140: Upgradeability, Platforms and the Way Ahead in Shipbuilding
Recently, the Royal Navy has downselected a variant of a time proven Danish frigate design. As…
Read More »An Update on the B-21 Bomber
AFA 2019: The United States will probably need substantially more B-21 bombers than the 100 it…
Read More »USS WASP in Talisman Sabre 2019
An F-35B Lightning II aircraft, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), takes off…
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