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The Challenge of Building Out a Naval Industrial Base Ready to Support Sustained Conflict

09/11/2019
By Defense.Info

With the shift from the land wars to higher tempo operations involved peer competitors, the industrial…

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Expanding the Aperture of Sustainability for the Force: The Case of the NUSHIP Stalwart

09/07/2019
By Robbin Laird

Recently, the Royal Australian Navy’s latest support tanker was launched in a ceremony in Ferrol, Spain…

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Shaping a Fifth Generation Combat Force (2)

09/06/2019
By Ulie Yildirim

Multiple initiatives are currently in motion to transform the RAAF into a fifth-generation force able to…

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The Japanese Self Defense Force

09/06/2019
By Japanese Ministry of Defence

The video was produced by the Japanese SDF. The Japanese military are about to receive a…

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Will Iran’s Satellite Launch Vehicle Result into an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Capability?

09/06/2019
By Debalina Ghoshal

There have been recent debates as to whether Iran’s Satellite Launch Vehicles can be utilised to…

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Why Stability Operations in the Middle East is a Bridge Too Far

09/05/2019
By Robbin Laird

At the suggestion of Air Marshal (Retired) Geoff Brown, Chairman of the Williams Foundation, I recently…

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Telescoping Generations: The International Fighter Conference 2019 and Its Look at Networked Lethality

09/04/2019
By Robbin Laird

When we argued more than a decade ago, that the introduction of fifth generation aircraft would…

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Standing Firm with Hong Kong Against the PRC: An Open Letter from the Committee on the Present Danger

08/31/2019
By Committee on the Present Danger: China

August 30, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Twenty-six members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China today sent President Donald…

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Crafting Effective Logistics Readiness: A Core Combat Capability

08/26/2019
By David Beaumont

Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat…

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USMC Ice-Breaking Drills in Norway

08/26/2019
By U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa

Marine Forces Europe and Africa worked on an ice-breaking drill during Exercise White Claymore in Bardufoss,…

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08/07/2026
By Robbin Laird

Drop the Littoral, Keep the Argument: What Deptula’s Sharpest Objection Gets Right

David Deptula’s response to my piece on the “air littoral” made one argument I did not adequately answer, and it is the one worth sitting with rather than relitigating. It…

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08/15/2026
By Robbin Laird and Kenneth Maxwell

O Império Informal: Duas Potências Médias, Um Desafio

Nos últimos anos, os decisores políticos ocidentais têm-se consolado com uma narrativa: que a interdependência económica com a China acabaria por civilizar a relação, que o comércio faria o que…

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From Kill Chain to Kill Web: The MISR WTI and the Navy’s Quiet Revolution

When the history of the Navy’s transition from kill chain to kill web is written, the creation of the Maritime ISR Weapons and Tactics Instructor — the MISR WTI —…

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Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force

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A Bridge Between History and Transformation: Reviewing The United States Marines: A History (Fifth Edition)

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The Age of Chaos: Kill Web Warfare, Authoritarian Coercion, and the Democratic Advantage

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Microsoft’s Investment Positions Australia as Regional Digital Node: If Policy Keeps Pace

Microsoft’s A$25 billion investment in Australian AI and cloud infrastructure positions the country as a significant node in the Indo-Pacific’s trusted digital architecture. That creates a strategic opportunity – one…

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Australia’s Strategic Advantages and How to Exploit Them: Rounding Up the Williams Foundation Seminar Insights

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The “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage” seminar produced a remarkably coherent and candid body of analysis across all its presentations. Rather than a checklist of capabilities, what emerged was a serious examination of genuine advantages — geographic, human, technical, alliance-based, and industrial —

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