SLD Special Reports

Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective

10/07/2024 On September 26, 2024, the most recent seminar of The Sir Richard Williams Foundation was held. It was entitled: “Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective.” This seminar focused on how the force in being or the ready force was focused on improving its capability, its survivability and lethality for the fight tonight.… Download PDF Now »
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The Changing Littoral Operational Context: What Role for Maritime Unmanned and Remote Systems?

10/10/2024 By Robbin Laird I had a chance to follow up with Jennifer Parker on her excellent presentation at the 26 September 2024 Sir Richard Williams seminar which focused on the… Read more »

Defence Industry in Australia: Building Strategic Depth and Resilience in Support of the Ready Force

10/07/2024 The September 26, 2024 Sir Richard Williams Foundation focused on accelerating the capabilities of the ready force. Defence industry in Australia is obviously a key player in the ability for… Read more »

Enabling and Defending the National Information Society: The Space Dimension

10/07/2024 Some time ago – more than a decade – I worked with Alan Dupas, the noted French space expert, on a project for a European space company on the future… Read more »

From the Ready to the Future Force: Key Warfighting Capabilities for the New Strategic Environment

10/05/2024 By Robbin Laird The strategic environment has clearly changed and the level of real world conflict has escalated, whether in terms of major hot wars – in the Middle East… Read more »

How Does the Ready Force Deal with a Rapidly Changing Operational Environment?

10/04/2024 It is fine to have long-range force structure planning, but what happens when the operational environment is rapidly changing for your operational force? How to adapt the ready force effectively… Read more »

The Chief of the Australian Army Explains How They are Dealing with the Simultaneous Challenges of the Three R’s

10/03/2024 In the September 26, 2024 Sir Richard Williams seminar, we focused on how the force in being can evolve effectively in the near to mid-term as investments are being made… Read more »
In Briefs

Osprey Transports U.S. Army Soldiers to Airborne DropZone

11/06/2024 U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during Super Garuda Shield 2024 in East Java,… Read more »

Ssang Yong 24

11/04/2024 U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 (Rein.), conduct a simulated air assault during Ssang Yong 24 in Pohang, South Korea, Sept. 3, 2024. Exercise SY24 strengthens the… Read more »

F-35 Lightning II Landing on Highway in Finland

11/01/2024 The Finnish Air Force hosted exercise BAANA 2024, Sept. 4, on Hosio Highway Strip, Ranua, Finland. During the exercise the aircraft landed on a highway strip in Finland to practice… Read more »

Thracian Summer 24

10/30/2024 U.S. and Bulgarian forces work together for Thracian Summer 2024, a flying training deployment, August 19-29, 2024, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. FTD Thracian Summer is a two-week training deployment for American… Read more »

Coastal Operations Training

10/28/2024 STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. — International security force professionals from Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritius, the Philippines, and Thailand participate in the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School’s (NAVSCIATTS)… Read more »

Exercise Razor Talon 23-1 and VMFA-542

10/25/2024 U.S. Marine Corps Maj. David Faerber, an F-35B Lightning II pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 542, talks about Exercise Razor Talon 23-1 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry… Read more »

Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Aircraft Arrive for RIMPAC24

10/23/2024 A Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon aircraft arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. Approximately 320 Australian Defence Force personnel have… Read more »
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Video of the Month

Pacific Marines Aid the Republic of the Philippines After Typhoon Hits

10/15/2024 Pacific Marines work alongside members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to stage and transport relief supplies in the Northern Philippines, Oct. 6 to 8, 2024. The U.S. Department… Read more »
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