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Author: Robbin Laird
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A Look Back at Euronaval 2018: Another Look at the Return of Direct Defense

11/13/2018
By Murielle Delaporte

Two years have passed since Le Bourget hosted the last Euronaval show. Two years during which…

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Drones as a Disruptive Technology

11/13/2018
By Guy Martin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are as ubiquitous as pigeons and are disrupting a broad…

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Army ADA Faces the Future

11/13/2018
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake

How busy is US Army Air Defense Artillery? “We have been at war for two decades…

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Carriers Aren’t The Only Big Targets: The Challenges of Mobile Basing

11/13/2018
By Robbin Laird

For years, we’ve heard about how vulnerable aircraft carriers are to enemy fire. They’re big. They’re…

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They Shall Not Grow Old

11/12/2018
By Robbin Laird

I am London on my way to Berlin to attend the international fighter conference. Because I…

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How can Air Force best attract, recruit, train, educate and retain a workforce of the best available talent?

11/11/2018
By Shaun McGill

Editorial Note from Central Blue: There is no doubt that people are our greatest asset and…

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The Future of Nordic Cooperation

11/11/2018
By Tuomas Iso-Markku, Eeva Innola, and Teija Tiilikainen

In a new report produced under the aegis of NORDEFCO, the Nordic cooperation effort is assessed…

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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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11/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

From Lead Nation to Contributing Node: If the Report Is Accurate, Europe’s Admirals Are Planning a North Atlantic With Less Royal Navy

If the report is accurate, the most important thing about a quiet meeting of European admirals in Paris this week is not who was in the room but whose ships…

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11/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

What Ukraine’s Organizational Innovation Teaches the Impact Force

When I Marine Expeditionary Force ran Steel Knight 2025, participants referred to the war in Ukraine again and again. But they did not treat it as a tactical template. The…

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11/03/2026
By Kenneth Maxwell

Europe Erupts: The Portuguese Dimension

The Rossio Square in central Lisbon is one of the Portuguese capital’s great attractions. Rebuilt by the Marques de Pombal after the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 it has in…

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09/11/2026
By Robbin Laird

The Age of Urgency: Rear Adm. McCoy on Rebuilding the Navy’s Aviator Pipeline

Originally published in Breaking Defense, September 4, 2026 Rear Adm. Max “Pepper” McCoy, the Chief of Naval Air Training, describes the system he runs as a factory conveyor belt: the…

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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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The Safety Valve: Why Local News Matters in an Age of Super-Intelligence

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Fight’s On: A Magic Eight Ball Takes On the SI Doomsayers

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11/03/2026
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Telling the Adversary Just Enough: Ghost Shark and Deterrence by Disclosure

On 19 October, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy revealed three capabilities of the Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle: laying sea mines, launching Altius aerial drones, and carrying underwater supplies.…

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Special Report: The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific

By Robbin Laird

For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a better machine. The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s 1 October seminar in Canberra, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass

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