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INS Visakhapatnam Commissioned into the Indian Navy: November 2021

11/24/2021
By India Strategic Mumbai. INS Visakhapatnam, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on November 21, 2021. The event marks the formal induction of the first of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers,…

Italian F-35 Pilot in Estonia Air Policing Mission

11/24/2021
The militaries of each NATO Ally rely on machines and vehicles to help them perform at the highest levels. Meet the men and women who operate those vehicles and learn how their machines help keep people safe. This Italian pilot, who must remain anonymous for security reasons, flies the F-35A…

Exercise Wirra Jaya 2021

11/23/2021
Exercise Wirra Jaya 21 (ExWJ21) is an annual bilateral, mounted, and dismounted combined arms training activity between the Australian Army and the Indonesian Army. 2021 marked the eighth iteration of the exercise which rotates each year between Darwin and Java. ExWJ21 training deepens interoperability to maintain a safe, secure, peaceful,…

Russia’s Space Shot across NATO’s Bow

11/22/2021
By Richard Weitz The Russian military obliterated a defunct Soviet-era Tselina radio-surveillance satellite, Cosmos 1408, that had been orbiting almost 500 kilometers above the Earth since 1982, with a single-short anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon on November 15. Though intended to intimidate the West, like the Russian military mobilizations near Ukraine and…

10 Year Mark in Expanded U.S.-Australian Cooperation

11/22/2021
According to an Australian Department of Defence article published on November 16, 2021, Australia and and the United States had reach the 10 year mark in their enhanced defense cooperation. On November 16, we celebrate a decade of expanded cooperation between the Australian Department of Defence and the United States…

The G/ATOR and Expeditionary Warfare

11/21/2021
By Ashley Calingo, Marine Corps Systems Command Force Design 2030 details Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger’s vision for maintaining the relevance of the Corps in the new age of great power competition. Developed to enable the Marine Corps to adapt and outmaneuver its adversaries, Force Design 2030…