The Direct Defense of Australia: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Both of my initial interviews during the current visit to Australia have highlighted the need to…
Read More »Benjamin Franklin and the Recueil in France
Benjamin Franklin, then seventy years of age, was famous as a leading figure in natural philosophy…
Read More »The Kingdom of Denmark: Trigger for Change in Nordic Integration?
With NATO’s expansion to include Sweden and Finland, how the Nordic nations rework their national security…
Read More »The Integratable Airwing and the CMV-22B Thread
To meet the challenge of operating a distributed fleet but working force integration, the Navy along…
Read More »The German Defense Reset: Building out Lift Capabilities to Support Forward Defense
On February 27, 2022, the German Chancellor announced a major re-set of German defense and security…
Read More »Leveraging the Integrated German Lift Force for Enhanced Multi-Domain Operations
The lift fleet is a key enabler for German forward defense. An ability to deliver integrated…
Read More »The United States and Portugal in the Time of the 18th Century Revolutions
Fortuitously for the Portuguese authorities, they were able to hide the Minas Conspiracy from international attention.…
Read More »The war in Ukraine, Escalation and its Potential Global Consequences
Russia clearly started the war in Ukraine but from the Russian point of view this has…
Read More »German Forward Defense, Basing Mobility and How the CH-53K Can Help
It is fair to say that no ground combat force is working harder on mobile basing…
Read More »Taking a Hard Look at the Challenge of Funding the Australian Defence Strategic Review
Dominating the debate on Australia’s defence-capability development is a long list of expensive new weapons to…
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