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…
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…
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…
Mike McCord, Scan Eagle site lead, and his team conduct Small Unmanned Aerial System or drone aboard USCGC Stratton (WMSL 752), in the Pacific, Oct. 31, 2019. The cutter's crew spent half of 2019 underway in support of joint operations in the Pacific. PACIFIC OCEAN 10.31.2019 Video by Chief Petty…
The Black Sea is a crossroads between Europe and Asia and an important waterway for trade and commerce. Its security is vital for the countries that border it, including NATO Allies Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey and partners Georgia and Ukraine, and for the wider European community. Ever since Russia’s illegal…
By Robbin Laird At the recent International Fighter Conference 2019, there was much discussion of the growing salience of the combat cloud to the “next” generation of air combat power. This discussion was subsumed within a growing emphasis on multi-domain operations, and the need for the kind of C2 which…
By Andrew McLaughlin This was the first operational deployment of a Hobart class DDG. “This deployment has been a real test of our preparation for and readiness to deliver Destroyer capability and is the culmination of two years of hard work,” Hobart’s CO, CMDR Ryan Gaskin said in a statement. “The…
By Marcus Hellyer In my series looking at the future of Australian power projection and the role of the F-35, I looked at how deploying from offshore airbases would allow the F-35A to operate relatively far away from Australia in areas that are strategically important to us. However, this is…
