2015-05-08 By Robbin Laird With the Russian approach to Ukraine as defining a threat envelope, the question of Baltic defense has become a central one for NATO. And deterrence rests not simply on having exercises and declarations but a credible strategy to defeat the Russians if they decided to probe,…
2015-05-07 By Stephen Blank It is long since time to reopen the vexed question of continuing large-scale US intelligence failure. The scope of our continuing failures in this area is too large to ignore and too dangerous to brush aside. Intelligence failures – and there have been many large-scale intelligence…
2015-05-04 The recent Airpower symposium held in Copenhagen, Denmark was co-hosted by the Williams Foundation and the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen. This outreach from Australia to Northern Europe parallels the Aussie engagement in the battle against ISIS and the evolving relationship between Europe and Asia, which has…
2015-05-02 Earlier this year, Japan and the UK as well as Australia and Japan expanded their discussions on defense industrial cooperation. In an agreement in March, the Japanese did this with France. According to a Reuters story published on March 13, 2015: Japan and France signed a deal on military…
2015-05-02 According to a story published on 4/9/15 on the Norwegian Ministry of Defense website, Norway will take over the role of policing Baltic airspace this month. The Baltic nations Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have all been members of the NATO alliance since 2004, but because of limited own capacities the…
2015-04-29 The Royal Dutch Air Force (RNLAF) has selected the F-35 as its next generation aircraft. Indeed, the Norwegians and the Dutch are both planning to be an all-fifth generation fleet. Others might join them in Europe as well in this process. The Italian and the UK Air Forces will…
2015-04-26 In his introduction to the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium on April 17, 2015 as well in his briefing on his newly released report on the lessons learned from the F-16 experience, Gary Schaub, Jr., the co-host of the Symposium, provided a number of insights with regard to the Danish experience…
2015-04-22 By Murielle Delaporte *** This article is based in part on interviews conducted last November with French and U.S. military forces based in Djibouti. Djibouti is uniquely located "near a tectonic triple junction, where three tectonic plates meet: African, Arabian and Somali," reads its geological description referring to the Red…
