2017-06-02 By Robbin Laird In Colin Clark’s recent coverage of the visit of RAAF Air Chief, Air Marshal Leo Davies,, to the United States, he highlighted the “institutional interoperability which the RAAF was shaping with its closest allies, and notably with the USAF and the USN. On a regional level,…
2017-05-31 By Danny Lam During the Korean War, US forces were able to draw on ample surplus inventory left over from World War II. Nevertheless, ammunition shortages materialized as consumption rates far exceeded expectations early in the conflict. Later, General Ridgeway’s use of firepower to save allied lives strained supply…
2017-05-28 By Robbin Laird President Trump is certainly not a laid back type of leader. Then again he would not have been elected if he was, given the nature of the evolving U.S. political process. He also was elected much like his predecessor with regard to domestic issues. President Obama…
06/08/2017: Japan hosts for the first time the 5th annual U.S-Japan amphibious and mine warfare staff talk about evolving amphibious operational capabilities. Sgt. Cheyenne Newman went to Kure to find out more about how Japan and the U-S use their relationship to build a stronger amphibious force. KURE, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN 05.24.2017…
2017-06-08 By Danny Lam The successful test of an interceptor by the Missile Defense Agency May 30 caused Vice Adm. James Syring to claim that CONUS is “safe” until 2020, or at least 3 years ahead of DPRK ICBMs. Let’s begin by taking this claim at face value. VAM Syring’s…
06/08/2017: Royal Australian Navy patrol boat HMAS Wollongong has completed an official visit to Fiji, including a four-day exercise within Fiji’s Exclusive Economic Zone with the Republic of Fiji Navy Ship Kula. Wollongong is on a South West Pacific deployment, which includes visits to the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, as part of the…
2017-05-26 By Robbin Laird The USMC is changing significantly as it shifts from the land wars to its evolving role as the nation’s key full spectrum insertion force. An entire generation of Marines has fought ashore and become a flexible land force; with the drawdown in the land wars in…
2017-06-06 By Richard Weitz At last weekend’s 16th annual Shangri-La Asia Security Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis focused on reassuring U.S. allies anxious about the sustainability of security commitments in the face of North Korean threats and China’s security ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region. In his…
