By Debalina Ghoshal It is a known fact that Middle East is not only gearing up its offensive capabilities but also its defensive capabilities as a deterrence against enemy missile threats. The Gulf Cooperating Countries (GCC) have always been crucial allies of the United States and one of the aims of…
U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys drop off Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2 Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 31, 2019. BAGHDAD, IRAQ 12.31.2019 Video by Sgt. Maj. Joey Thompson According to a story by Ben Werner of USNI News published on December…
By India Strategic Washington DC. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana and Naval Station Norfolk on December 17. The visit highlighted the depth of the US-India defence partnership and the close ties between the Navies of the two countries. During the visit to NAS Oceana,…
By Central Blue, The Williams Foundation On 24 October 2019, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation held a seminar examining the requirements of Fifth Generation Maneuver Operations. The aim of the seminar, building on previous seminars was to examine the differences and potential gaps in how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) must equip and…
By Robbin Laird With the transformation of Marine Corps Aviation, the older notion of the ARG-MEU is being replaced by a much more flexible concept of the amphibious task force. And with the central importance of dealing with full spectrum crisis management, the capabilities resident in the task force as…
By Robbin Laird Although interesting to speculate about technology and the future of warfare, the core point is the future is now. The US and its allies have to be ready in the near to mid term to deal with 21stcentury adversaries who will use a variety of crisis management…
By Pierre Tran Paris - France seeks to maintain close ties with Britain after Brexit on a bilateral and multilateral basis, with the Macron administration proposing a European council for security and defense as an institutional link, a government official said. The Dec. 12th election resulted in the UK seeing…
By Robbin Laird At the recent International Fighter Conference 2019, there was much discussion of the growing salience of the combat cloud to the “next” generation of air combat power. This discussion was subsumed within a growing emphasis on multi-domain operations, and the need for the kind of C2 which…
