By Pierre Tran Paris - The French arms procurement office has signed a contract worth €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion) for work on the technology demonstrator phase 1B of the European future combat air system with Airbus, Dassault Aviation, the Eumet engine joint venture, and Indra, the companies said Dec. 16…
By Robbin Laird When it comes to crisis management and war termination, the United States faces a fundamental challenge: what are our strategic objectives and how do we achieve them in a world where so much is changing? I recently discussed this challenge with my colleague Dr. Paul Bracken of…
While we await the wrap up of Digital Horizons exercise going on currently with Task Force 59, if we look back to last year we can highlight the 11th MEU working with the MANTAS T12 maritime autonomous system. Marines assigned to the All Domain Reconnaissance Detachment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit…
By Robbin Laird As the Nordics work through how to best integrate their forces, a key element to consider is how to shape a basing structure involving the Nordics which will enable an enhanced Northern European and North Atlantic defense. When I visiting Norway in 2018, I witnessed one of…
In an article published by NAVAIR on December 6, 2022, the arrival of the powerful engine for the CH-53K and its first disassembly at Cherry Point, North Carolina was highlighted. Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently opened a new chapter in the depot’s engine program with its first disassembly of…
The Danish Foreign Ministry set up a Security Policy Analysis Group, chaired by Ambassador Michael-Johns, Danish NATO Ambassador (the featured photo), which issued its report on the nature of the evolving strategic environment. This is how the 16 November 2022 announcement of the public meeting to launch the report read:…
During a Bold Alligator story which I wrote for what is now Breaking Defense, I highlighted the importance of understanding what a photo meant when in context. I wrote in that 2012 article that because the Osprey was used to conduct an assault raid from the seabase deep inland, the…
By Robbin Laird The coming of Finland and Sweden into NATO changes how the defense of Northern Europe is worked. As Admiral (Retired) Nils Wang has put it: "Now one needs to think in terms of defence of the North of Europe from Iceland to the Finnish and Norwegian borders.…
