HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Run Silent, Run Sometime. Please
Australia is running into a new “submarine gap”, and a submarine budget which severely distorts its defense budget and strategic profile. What is to be done?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Private Military Contracting: Outsourcing Warfare
Private sector military forces have again become a norm of national security for many governments. But, as history shows, the costs may be higher than desired.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Australia Girds for Power Projection Independence
Australia is more ready to resist a PRC military thrust southward than it was to face the Japanese southward thrust in World War II. And the PRC’s capability today may not be as potent in the relative balance as Japan’s was in 1941.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | What To Believe?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Space 2.0: The Next World Revolution
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Amphibious Operations in a New Era of Offensive Total War
The world has begun its move back to an era of offensive warfare after some seven decades of defensive strategic thinking. One of the sharp points of power projection is expeditionary warfare, so a new era of amphibious warfare thinking must now occur.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | No Breathing Space
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Aerospace
Afghanistan
Beijing’s “Unavoidable” War: The 21st Century’s Total War Has Begun
The new form of “total war” which Beijing has begun is more comprehensive and amorphous than any strategic engagement seen thus far in history. And Beijing has learned from history: direct military engagement is, of necessity, a very secondary component. This is a war which Pres.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Coronavirus Impacts the Australian Defense Outlook
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Balkan War II: UAVs Against Serbia
The US drone design pattern worked well for a low-threat air defense environment. Did the US learn enough from its use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs: drones) in the 1999 war — Operation Allied Force — against Serbia?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Beijing’s Strategic Support Force: The Key Focus of US Concern
Yes, 5G communications technology, where the PRC excels, is at the core of those concerns.