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The Danish F-16 Transition: From a Garrison to an Expeditionary Air Force

11/11/2018
By Robbin Laird

During my visit to Denmark in October 2018, I had a chance to visit Fighter Wing…

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The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War

11/10/2018
By Robbin Laird

There is by now a growing literature on Bletchley Park, its culture, its approaches, and its…

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Whether The U.S. Scraps The INF Or Stays In, China Must Be Checked

11/10/2018
By Dave Deptula

President Trump recently made it clear that he intends to withdraw the U.S. from the 1987…

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Australia and NG IAMD Battle Command System

11/10/2018
By Max Blenkin

The Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) is demonstrating increasingly…

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Working the Double Transition Within the Danish Air Force: From Garrison to Expeditionary to Extended Deterrence in Northern Europe

11/10/2018
By Robbin Laird

During my recent visit to Denmark, I had the chance to visit the Royal Danish Air…

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The Coming of Hanseatic League 2.0

11/08/2018
By Defense.Info

Europe is the throes of fundamental change. We argued earlier that from the Cold War, to…

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The “5Th Generation Information Management Environment” – An Australian Defence Force Enabler or a Roadblock?

11/07/2018
By Ian McDonald AM, MSc, DipEng & AVM John Blackburn (Retd) AO, MA, MDefStud

The phrase “5th Generation” (Gen) is often dismissed as just another fad, whilst totally missing the…

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F-35 Production Process

11/07/2018
By Defense.Info

This weekly video is built around a recent Defense News video as well as a paper…

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What Northrop’s $54M Unified Platform Win Means For Cyber War

11/06/2018
By Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr.

A deceptively modest award for a blandly named “Unified Platform” actually gives contractor Northrop Grumman the lead role…

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For Self and Country

11/04/2018
By Stephen Markley

We published a piece on June 11, 2011 which remembered the life of Rick Eilert (USMC)…

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