French and UK Militaries After Brexit? New Training Program Put in Place

09/02/2017
2017-09-02  According to the UK Ministry of Defence, a new agreement with France is setting in place a key training program moving forward. Over the next few months over 2,500 British troops will train with their French counterparts, participating in exercises spanning Eastern Europe to Kenya. The Defence Secretary will agree…

Reshaping DoD Business Rules: Leverage Allied Investments in Building Out US Capabilities

08/31/2017
2017-08-29 By Robbin Laird The title of this piece might seem obvious -- why would not the US do everything possible to put the best equipment into the field? The answer is simply that the foreign investment equation is largely absent in the US political calculus. There would be no…

Group Captain Braz on the RAAF and the Way Ahead on Electronic Warfare: Shaping a Core Distributed Capability for the Integrated Force

08/31/2017
2017-08-28 By Robbin Laird On August 23, 2017, the Williams Foundation held a seminar on the future of electronic warfare. At the heart of the Seminar and the discussion were the presentations by Group Captain Braz of the RAAF, a key figure in the introduction of the Growler into the…