2017-12-05 By Robbin Laird During my last visit to Australia, I spent time with colleagues in the Australian government discussing various aspects of the strategic environment in flux and what the impact of such an environment has on Australian interests. The newly released Foreign Policy White Paper provides a public…
2017-12-16 By Danny Lam The United States seized on an opportunity co-host with Canada a meeting of the United Nations Command Sending States plus the Republic of Korea and Japan after the last DPRK missile test. The stated purpose of the meeting for the US was to “discuss how the…
2017-12-082017-11-20 The new Queen Elizabeth class carrier is the largest warship ever built in the United Kingdom. While most of the focus of the press coverage has been on the process of building the carrier and now its sea trials, the carrier is coming at a very interesting point in…
2017-12-05 By The Australian Institute of International Affairs Australia’s first Foreign Policy White Paper in 14 years opens with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s declaration, “change, unprecedented in its scale and pace, is the tenor of our times”; and it is the changes in global power dynamics, international trade, security, technology…
2017-12-07 Airbus Defence and Space published a release today which highlighted the Bundeswehr mission in Africa, operating from a French base at Gao. The Heron has been part of that mission and has completed its first year of operations in Mali. According to the Press Release: The Heron 1 UAV system,…
12/11/17: RAAF Base Amberley is hosting two United States Air Force B-1B Lancers as part of the United States Force Posture Initiatives Enhanced Air Cooperation program. The USAF B-1B Lancers are long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber aircraft and are taking part in a training exercise with the Royal Australian Air…
2017-12-01 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake As the USAF looks to its evolving air combat capability for 21st century operations, clearly continuing the path of innovation being shaped by the Pilot Operators of the capabilities of the fifth-generation aircraft is a crucial driver for change. The introduction of sensor…
2017-11-28 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake It is clear that information system security and appropriate defenses is a very significant issue. However, shaping an effective way ahead, which both gets the job done and shapes rethinking which can lead to further progress is more difficult that simply buying a…
