2017-01-17 According to a press release issued by Eurofighter on January 16, 2017, Eurofighter Typhoons belonging to the Austrian Armed Forces will secure the airspace on the occasion of the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos. The World Economic Forum will be held in the Swiss ski resort from January 17…
2017-01-08 By Robbin Laird Norway stands at an interesting global and historical point in the evolution of Western defense. It faces directly resurgent Russia and faces the challenge with its Nordic partners of Baltic defense as well. Then with the Arctic opening and the High North actually part of Norwegian…
01/16/2017: Steel Knight 17 is a Division Level exercise encompassing live-fire ranges and simulated combat across the scope and scale of warfighting,. It is designed to enhance the readiness and lethality of the 1st Marine Division in Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Marine…
2017-01-16 By Jonathan Ward Published by The Jamestown Foundation China Brief January 13, 2017 The naval build-up of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, will contribute to a new era in the importance of naval power. Owing in part to a collapse in relations in the late…
2017-01-08 By Robbin Laird As Mark Lewis, the former Chief Scientist of the USAF, has warned repeatedly, high speed weapons, notably hypersonic ones, are on the way and will be part of the evolving threat environment. As he wrote in 2010: Aerospace engineering is ultimately about pushing the boundaries, and…
2017-01-05 By Paul Bracken, Yale University The most interesting thing about the second nuclear age is that it actually came about. It wasn’t supposed to happen, at least according to most political science theory. What was supposed to happen after the cold war was a reinvigorated global nuclear nonproliferation regime,…
This is the first of a three part series by Danny Lam on the way ahead for the "One China Policy. 2017-01-15 By Danny Lam President Xi Jinping of People’s Republic of China will be promoting “free trade” at Davos later this month. If it is the case that Chinese…
2017-01-15 According to a story published on the UK MoD website on January 11, 2107, Typhoons from RAF Coningsby will be based in Romania for three months in summer 2017. This is part of the upcoming UK contributions to NATO. UK forces have taken command of NATO’s Response Force’s Land Component…
