The US Withdraws from the INF Treaty: The Day After Challenges
On August 2, 2019, NATO issued a statement with regard to the US decision to withdraw…
Read More »Industry 4.0 in Aerospace and Defense: Shaping a Way Ahead
The benefits of Industry 4.0 for A&D manufacturers are enormous but involve critical decisions on digital…
Read More »Elon Musk Has Found the 2019 Version of Mr. Smith: Jimmy Stewart Would Not Be Needed in This Role
The astonishing drama that played out on the floor of the House of Representatives on July…
Read More »Shaping the Future Australian Army
The Australian Army’s strategic paradigm since the end of World War II has been based on…
Read More »America in Asia: Assessing the Future
Hugh White’s How to Defend Australia shows a master storyteller at work. It’s part of a…
Read More »21st Century Critical Infrastructure: The Convergence of the Cyber and Physical Worlds
In Australia, the federal, state and territory governments have defined critical infrastructure as: ‘Those physical facilities,…
Read More »Nuclear Weapons in Asia: A Nuclear Force in Australia’s Future?
Hugh White’s new book, How to defend Australia, has stirred up a hornet’s nest on the…
Read More »The Australian and UK Defense Transformation Approaches
The UK and Australia are both in the throes of significant force transformation. But unlike earlier…
Read More »How Logistics and Readiness Changed War
Earlier, I identified the idea of logistics readiness as the ability of a military force to…
Read More »The US Logistics Systems: The Challenge of a Strategic Reset
Recently, the Williams Foundation held a seminar, which addressed the core question: how sustainable was the…
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