• Post Date

5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Conducting Airborne Operations

01/03/2020
Soldiers with 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conducting airborne operations that was used to create a video in support of the Special Operations Recruiting Battalion Campaign at Fort Campbell, KY, on April, 12 2019. FORT CAMPBELL, KY, UNITED STATES 04.12.2019 Video by Staff Sgt. Iman Broady-Chin 5th Special Forces Public…

Indian Defence Minister Visits US Navy: Getting Updates in Norfolk and Naval Air Station Oceana

01/02/2020
By India Strategic Washington DC. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana and Naval Station Norfolk on December 17. The visit highlighted the depth of the US-India defence partnership and the close ties between the Navies of the two countries. During the visit to NAS Oceana,…

Australian Perspectives on 5th Generation Maneuver Operations

01/02/2020
By Central Blue, The Williams Foundation On 24 October 2019, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation held a seminar examining the requirements of Fifth Generation Maneuver Operations. The aim of the seminar, building on previous seminars   was to examine the differences and potential gaps in how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) must equip and…

Rethinking the Amphibious Task Force: Digital Interoperability and the Transformation of USMC Aviation

12/31/2019
By Robbin Laird With the transformation of Marine Corps Aviation, the older notion of the ARG-MEU is being replaced by a much more flexible concept of the amphibious task force. And with the central importance of dealing with full spectrum crisis management, the capabilities resident in the task force as…

The 0-5 Military: Reshaping Concepts of Operations for Full Spectrum Crisis Management

12/31/2019
By Robbin Laird Although interesting to speculate about technology and the future of warfare, the core point is the future is now.  The US and its allies have to be ready in the near to mid term to deal with 21stcentury adversaries who will use a variety of crisis management…

Updating European Defense for the 2020s: Establishing a European Defence and Security Council

12/30/2019
By Pierre Tran Paris - France seeks to maintain close ties with Britain after Brexit on a bilateral and multilateral basis, with the Macron administration proposing a European council for security and defense as an institutional link, a government official said. The Dec. 12th election resulted in the UK seeing…

Osprey Resupply

12/30/2019
U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161, attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command 19.2, perform MV-22 landing qualifications and logistics runs with the expeditionary landing base (ESB-3) USS Lewis B. Puller in an undisclosed location, Oct. 29, 2019. The SPMAGTF-CR-CC…