U.S. Marines participate in service-level training events to include Integrated Training Exercise 2-21, and Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 2-21, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, February 2021. MWX is the culminating event of the service level training exercise, challenging Marines to fight…
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake With the standing up of Second Fleet in 2018, the stand up of Allied Joint Forces Command and the incorporation of the NATO Centre -- Combined Joint Operations from the Sea – it is clear that Vice Admiral Lewis, who oversees all of this,…
The Commonwealth Government has announced a plan to establish a Centre of Expertise for Electronic Warfare in Adelaide in conjunction with Flinders University and DEWC T&E. Valued at $5 million over five years, the centre has been established under a Professional Electronic Warfare Training, Education and Research (PEWTER) memorandum of…
By Pierre Tran Paris - France welcomed May 4 an Egyptian announcement of an order for a further 30 Rafale fighter jets and weapons from Dassault Aviation, MBDA and Safran, confirming a news report on Disclose, a French campaigning website. “The armed forces minister, Florence Parly, welcomes the latest export…
The Air Force aims to harness and wield the most optimal forms of artificial intelligence to accomplish all mission-sets of the service with greater speed and accuracy. One way the Air Force aims to accomplish this effort is by embedding innovative Airmen of all ranks and backgrounds into academia and…
By Robbin Laird The IDF recently selected the CH-53K to replace its legacy heavy lift assets, namely, the CH-53D. It is clear that the IDF is buying the CH-53K for many of the same reasons which USMC is doing so but the IDF has been especially focused on three key…
By Robbin Laird During a visit to Camp Lejeune during the last week of April 2021, I had a chance to talk and interview the IIMEF leadership team. They had just concluded a major exercise, Dynamic Cape 21, which I will highlight in some of those in the forthcoming published…
In a UK Ministry of Defence story published on April 8, 2021, recent operations in Iraq by the RAF were highlighted. A Daesh stronghold in northern Iraq has been cleared as part of Operation Shader, the Ministry of Defence has announced today. The RAF has carried out a series of…
