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This book provides a rich and complex picture of Portugal through various lenses.The book highlights the long shadow of the Salazar regime, the enduring legacy of its history and culture, the transformative impact of the Lisbon earthquake and its reconstruction, the struggles and ultimate end of its colonial empire, and the evolving perspectives on its past as seen through the eyes of historian Kenneth Maxwell.The book underscores the tensions between tradition and modernity, authoritarianism and the desire for change, and national pride and the challenges of a globalized world.
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The paradigm shift in maritime operations involves moving away from concentrating power in capital ships to distributing capabilities across a network of assets.
Distributed Maritime Effects (DME) are the effects created by this distributed force, often independent of or supplemental to traditional capital ship operations which are increasingly focused on distributed maritime operations.
The book highlights the move from traditional capital ship-centric warfare to a distributed, kill web-enabled force. It highlights the importance of integrating autonomous systems and modular capabilities for enhanced combat effectiveness.
Distributed maritime effects will increasingly be created by the use of non-capital ship maritime assets. Air and sea autonomous systems coupled with manned air will generate a core combined capability to deliver the kinds of combat clusters which can create distributed maritime effects supplemental to or independent of the operation of capital ships themselves.
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This book highlights Italy’s significant role in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The book details Italy’s contributions to F-35 manufacturing and maintenance at the Cameri facility, highlighting its status as a key production and sustainment hub for European and allied partners. Furthermore, the book highlights the integration of the F-35B into the Italian Navy’s ITS Cavour aircraft carrier and its implications for sea-based operations. Finally, the book discusses Italy’s participation in multinational exercises, such as Pitch Black, showcasing its long-range deployment capabilities and commitment to international partnerships, and the development of advanced pilot training facilities.
The book is based on interviews in Italy, the United States and Australia conducted with Italian pilots and airpower leaders since 2013.
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As the former Secretary of the USAF and the architect of fifth generation airpower, Michael Wynne commented “What the reader will see herein is the architecture of the modern integration of economics diplomacy, and statecraft. Using Dr. Malmgren’s continuing work, this collection illustrates his unique perspective that he has brought to industry, finance and his efforts in Government.”Ambassador Malmgren was a counselor to several U.S. Presidents and an advisor to several major global corporations and a major thinker shaping the modern global trading system. This book provides insights into his work and provides a number of significant assessments written for the Second Line of Defense team over the past 15 years.Dr. Malmgren is a synthetic thinker, and his way of working is in the tradition of the man for who is named, a famous chess grandmaster, but applied to global strategic analysis.
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