The Japanese Coast Guard: Japan’s “hidden navy?”
09/08/2011
09/08/2011 - Risk Intelligence looks at the Japanese Coast Guard and its role.
Eurofighters, F-15s and Japan
07/07/2011
07/07/2011 The Eurofighter consortium would clearly like to be the F-15 replacement in Japan, where a recent accident led to the grounding of the 40 year old aircraft.
SM-3 Missile and Japan
10/24/2009
Our sources in Tokyo tell us that the new Japanese government is rethinking in significant ways their relationship with the United States which might well include the SM-3.
Ambassador Glassman on: Japan and Defense Modernization: Critical Catalyst for Regional Stability and Recovery
09/22/2009
Ambassador Jon Glassman addresses the important question of how the new governments of the industrial democracies will address defense modernization. The global economic crisis could lead to a significant reduction in the capability of these democracies ...
The AEGIS Global Enterprise: Crafting a Global Defensive Capability
09/18/2009
Missile defense is a global effort. It requires the global deployment of U.S. forces and the capability to connect those forces with those of its allies. Joint and coalition concepts of operations are being shaped to ensure decision makers with the options of providing defense for allied deployed forces and…