UK Defence Co-Operation with Japan

02/18/2021
On February 3, 2021, the UK Ministry of Defence published an article which highlighted the coming deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Pacific and how that deployment fit into a wider strategy. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab discussed the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth during…

ADMM-Plus 10th Anniversary

02/11/2021
On December 10, 2020, Minister of Defense Kishi attended the ceremony for the 10th Anniversary of the Founding of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (hereinafter referred to as "ADMM-Plus"), the 7th ADMM-Plus, and the 6th ASEAN-Japan Defence Ministers’ Informal Meeting via a videoconference. What is ADMM-Plus? The ADMM-Plus is the…

France and the Barkhane Operation: Shaping a Way Ahead

01/17/2021
By Pierre Tran Paris - France should pull out of Mali. That is the French media message to the Macron administration, as fatalities rise in what is highlighted as a quagmire. The new year began with a deadly start, when a homemade road bomb killed Jan. 2 two French soldiers…

The Next Phase of Australian National Security Strategy: Noise Before Defeat 4

12/21/2020
I am in the throes of finishing up my book on the evolution of Australian defence strategy over the past several years, from 2014 until now. With the announcement of the new government defence strategy by Prime Minister Morrison on July 1, 2020, it seemed a good time to draw…

European Support Continued in Fight Against Boko Haram Insurgency

12/20/2020
By defenceWeb In fulfilment of its pledge to provide additional support to enhance the operational efficiency of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), mandated to bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency, the European Union (EU) has provided command, control, communication and information systems (C3IS) to the Force. In…

Potosí and its Silver: The Beginnings of Globalization

12/13/2020
By Kenneth Maxwell A decade after the Spanish Conquistadores toppled the Inca Empire (1532-34), an indigenous Andean prospector, Diego Gualpa, in 1545, stumbled onto the richest silver deposit in the world on a high mountain of 4,800 meters (15,750 feet) in the eastern cordillera of the Bolivian Andes. Here in…