By Pierre Tran Paris - MBDA was beating its own targets in building missiles in larger numbers and greater speed, at a time when the ties between Western allies were shifting, the chief executive of the European missile company said March 17. Eric Béranger said last year he had forecast there…
By Robbin Laird When I interviewed the Commanding General of 2nd Marine Air Wing last summer, he underscored the importance for the Marines to craft a way ahead with regard to distributed air operations. This is how we discussed the issue at that time: We then discussed distributed air operations…
We have published a new book in our airpower and naval modernization series. This book focuses on the Osprey and its evolution since 2007. As the United States faces a global overload of strategic challenges and the concomitant challenge of shaping an effective and capable force to deal with these…
By Robbin Laird The Marines like the other services in the U.S. military have been focusing on how to distribute their forces for both their core missions and in support of joint and coalition operations. Force distribution has been necessitated by the growth of precision strike available to both peer…
By Murielle Delaporte President Macron's address to the French on March 5, 2025[1] echoes the speeches of his predecessors, who tirelessly fought for an autonomous and sovereign defense, or at least the most sovereign defense possible in view of global economic constraints and realities. General de Gaulle's vision of a…
By Pierre Tran Paris - The armed forces minister, Sébastien Lecornu, visited Feb. 27 Turgis Gaillard, a private company developing and building a low-cost medium-altitude, long-endurance combat drone, dubbed Aarok, at Blois, central France. “Turgis Gaillard had the honor to welcome the armed forces minister, Sébastien Lecornu, on its…
By Robbin Laird When I visited VADM Miller, then the Navy’s Air Boss, in 2020, I learned of something called MISR. No not a cheap person, but the Navy’s rethink of how to work the left side of the kill chain or to expand its capability to provide the data…
As the Trump Administration considers a way ahead for U.S. forces, support for the USMC should be front and center. Multi-domain warfare delivered by a survivable and lethal force is at the heart of effective distributed operations. The Maines have crafted the most advanced air enablement capability for the ground…
