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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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Is Trump right to nuke the INF Treaty?

11/03/2018
By Ian Bond

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a cornerstone of European stability. The US should challenge Russian…

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US Chief of Naval Operations Visits Australia: November 2018

11/03/2018
By Max Blenkin

The US Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) says Australia’s new Hobart class DDGs was a…

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The No Flag League: NFL Boycott on November 11th

11/02/2018
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NFL — “NO FLAG LEAGUE” The NFL Will Feel This On Veterans Day! This is one…

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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
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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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