F-35B Lightning II aircraft assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 242 conduct carrier landing practice during Exercise Resolute Dragon 24 at Ie Shima Training Facility in Okinawa, Japan. 08.07.2024 Video by Travis Minyon F-35 Joint Program Office
By Robbin Laird In writing our book on the maritime kill web, a key point we emphasized was that payload innovation was a key driver to enhanced and viable combat capability. Rather than focusing force design on next generation platforms, a key focus now was to focus on rapid insertion…
By John Blaxland There’s an understandable inclination at first blush to see the U.S. presidential election outcome as auguring difficult times ahead on the global stage. President elect Donald Trump’s iconoclastic rhetoric on Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, tariffs and more in the lead-up to the election, coupled with his transactional approach…
By Robbin Laird In 2015, I wrote an article asking the question of what era in American politics did the 2016 election remind me of? I answered in part that perhaps the 1890s and the collapse of the main stream parties and their re-alignment was the best analogy. The force…
The Oklahoma “Steel Warriors” of the 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment (1-14 FAR) deployed to the Atacama Desert, located in the Tacapacá region, with the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) to conduct artillery training operations with the Chilean army during Southern Fenix 24 (SF24) at Campo Militar…
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey during Super Garuda Shield 2024 in East Java, Indonesia, Aug. 27, 2024. Super Garuda Shield is an annual exercise that has significantly grown in scope and size since…
U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262 (Rein.), conduct a simulated air assault during Ssang Yong 24 in Pohang, South Korea, Sept. 3, 2024. Exercise SY24 strengthens the Republic of Korea-U.S Alliance through bilateral, joint training, contributing toward combined amphibious capability in defense of the Korean Peninsula. POHANG,…
The Finnish Air Force hosted exercise BAANA 2024, Sept. 4, on Hosio Highway Strip, Ranua, Finland. During the exercise the aircraft landed on a highway strip in Finland to practice Agile Combat Employment which increases the ability of our collective partners to collaborate and operate in a joint, high-intensity environment,…
