By Ed Timperlake The view of the US Navy and its approach to ASW throughout history was laid down over sixty years ago by one of the most accomplished CNO’s in Naval History, Admiral Arleigh Burke. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke initiated “Project Nobska,” which carved out a…
The Australian government signed an agreement in 2016 with Naval Group to build a new class of attack submarines. There have been challenges to reach a partnering agreement, including intellectual property and other issues. Last month, a core partnering agreement was signed enabling further working relationships to be established essential…
By Ed Timperlake The famous battle winning lineage of the Navy’s Anti-submarine force (ASW) is being called to “Sound General Quarters Battle Stations” because America is being directly threatened by the President of Russia’s submarines with low flying air-breathing nuclear tipped hypersonic cruise missiles. The significant change in the direct…
The decision by the current Australian government to co-develop a new class of attack submarines with the French Naval Group will not deliver the replacement submarines until well into the next decade. This clearly creates what one might call a submarine “gap.” Given that attack submarines are the key current…
We have just published the third version of report on German defense. According to Brigadier General (Retired) Meyer sum Felde: “Priority must now be again on collective defence and related high intensity warfighting capabilities for credible deterrence. “The Bundeswehr must become again essential part of the conventional backbone of defence…
By Ed Timperlake The famous Navy saying “we are ready now” also means Navy R&D focus is to always be ever vigilant in building for the future. The future is now but it is anchoring as well a way ahead. In fact, for 2025 and beyond, the US Navy is…
By Robbin Laird During my visit to Germany in February 2019, I had the chance to discuss the return of direct defense in Europe and the way ahead for German defense with an experienced Bundeswehr officer and thinker with many years of NATO experience, Brigadier General (ret.) Rainer Meyer zum…
By Edward Timperlake In the first article in the series, we introduced the notion developed by Paul Bracken of breaking escalation dominance into smaller chunks. In his book on the Second Nuclear Age , he argued that mastering the maneuver space for the threat to use nuclear weapons was part…
