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…
By Edward Timperlake President Putin has recently threatened a direct attack against the United States with nuclear weapons if we do not comply with his strategic approach to Europe and the West. The Russian PR machine has kicked in and we have a recent you tube visit from a St.…
Defence has signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin Australia and Lockheed Martin Corporation to ensure the effective long-term sustainment of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter capability in Australia. The agreement includes intellectual property, technical data and software arrangements for Australia’s direct sovereign sustainment contracts with Lockheed Martin entities. The Minister for…
