We have just published our latest book, this one bringing together our work on Second Line of Defense with regard to the evolution of French defense policy under President Macron during his first term. Here is what Robbin Laird, the editor of the reader, wrote about the book: Emmanuel Macron…
U.S. Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234, Marine Aircraft Group 41, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, take part in Exercise Arctic Edge 23 on Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, and Cold Bay, Alaska, May 8-9, 2023. The battalion…
By Robbin Laird We have heard a lot about A2D2 and about the authoritarian powers and their asymmetric threats, Well two can play this game. The U.S. Navy has within reach a new capability to throw curve balls into the con-ops of an Iranian or Chinese navy approach to challenging…
U.S. Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234, Marine Aircraft Group 41, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, take part in Exercise Arctic Edge 23 on Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, and Cold Bay, Alaska, May 8-9, 2023. The battalion…
In June 2023 the Australian Defence Force conducted Exercise Sea Explorer across the coast of North Queensland. Exercise Sea Explorer prepared the Amphibious Ready Unit for certification. The Australian Amphibious Force train closely with the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Choules, as well as a beach landing force…
By Pierre Tran Paris - President Emmanuel Macron welcomed on July 14 the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, as guest of honor to a prestige-laden military parade marking the 1789 French revolution, a day after New Delhi green lighted high-level talks to order 26 Rafale fighter jets and three attack…
Exercise High Sierra 23-1 (HS23-1) is a No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit (2OCU) training exercise, with the squadron operating out of RAAF Base Townsville and into the Shoalwater Bay Training Area over the period 19 June to 06 July 2023. The exercise is the final component of the F-35A Lightning…
Recently, during an exercise in the Persian Gulf, a MARTAC Devil Ray USV was refueled by a USCG vessel. The production version of the Devil Ray can go more than 1000 nautical miles at normal speed but with refueling it obviously can stay on operations much longer. And staying on…
