Japanese-UK Cooperation: Shaping New Combat Air Systems?
A surprising defence-technology partnership is emerging between Japan and the UK. The cooperation is mostly preliminary…
Read More »The U.S. Navy Prepares the Way for Unmanned Surface Vessels
One of the most rapidly growing areas of innovative technology adoption involves unmanned systems. The U.S.…
Read More »Time to Reinforce Direct Defense in Europe
The question of the direct defense in Europe today is broader than that of the Russian challenge…
Read More »The Wehrmacht’s Goliath ROV: The Beginnings of Army “Unmanned” Vehicles
According to an article by Jon Guttman published on History.Net: In late 1940, inspired by a…
Read More »The Royal Canadian Navy and the Joint Support Ship Challenge
Back in June 2010, some six years after the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) had begun studying…
Read More »Shaping the Way Ahead for the Maritime Integrated Distributed Force: The Perspective of VADM Lewis
The U.S. Navy is already shaping the foundation for the way ahead to build a more…
Read More »Manned-Unmanned Collaboration: The Case of the U.S. Navy
With the shift from land wars to conflicts in contested air and sea spaces, new concepts…
Read More »The US Navy Will Not Outnumber the PRC Maritime Force
The most often quoted line of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu is that ‘supreme excellence consists in…
Read More »China, Australia and Global Change: Why a European Agreement Now?
Recently, I had a chance to talk with Ross Babbage, a leading Australian strategist about the…
Read More »Finland and Crisis Management
Participation in international crisis management is a part of Finland’s active foreign and security policy. Finland…
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