How Defence and Air Power Contribute to National Effects: A View from the Top
This is the second video posted from the Airpower Conference 2020 which had been scheduled for…
Read More »Shaping a Maritime Kill Web Transition: The Case of the MQ-25
In my recent interviews with the senior officers working at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center…
Read More »Australia and the Return of Direct Defense in Europe
As NATO and the EU look to build relevant capabilities for today’s direct defense challenges, it…
Read More »Defending Australia’s North: The Case for Automated Airbases
There’s a constant in Australian defence: not enough people. In peacetime, the defence organisation’s difficulties with…
Read More »South African Navy’s New Hydrographic Survey Vessel
Sandock Austral Shipyards, previously known as Southern African Shipyards, is moving swiftly ahead with the construction…
Read More »Russia Post COVID-19: Putin’s Leadership at Risk?
Russia is experiencing a triple crisis that threatens to undermine the authoritarian leadership of President Putin.…
Read More »COVID-19 or Not: US Marines Arrive at RAAF Base Darwin
The first group of around 200 US Marines arrived at RAAF Base Darwin on 02 June…
Read More »French Arms Exports 2019
France won arms export orders worth €8.33 billion ($9.3 billion) in 2019, down 8.7 percent from…
Read More »The ADF and Basing Options
I read with interest the recent Strategist posts by John Coyne and Graeme Dunk in which they apparently took different stands on…
Read More »Morocco To Acquire New Air Defense Systems
Morocco’s government has approved a 192 million euro purchase of weapons from France’s MBDA, which are…
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