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“We aim to prove that we can stay focused on the region despite the very real power moves elsewhere,” State Department official Camille Dawson said after mentioning Ukraine.
By Colin ClarkSpace Development Agency’s global mesh network in space is moving forward, with speed
By focusing on delivering minimum viable products, the Space Development Agency is enabling a larger set of suppliers to rapidly field data transport and missile tracking systems.
“Steps are now underway to Australia to ensure Australia has a workforce with the necessary skills, training and qualifications to build, operate, sustain, and [decommission] a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability,” Vice Adm. Mead noted.
By Colin Clark
To operate in the Pacific, “we have to grow beyond the 20th-century Cold War model that we needed with big bases,” Gen. Charles Flynn told Breaking Defense. “Our future concept is agile, it’s distributed, it’s networked, it’s mobile. And it’s integrated with our allies and partners in the region, because we gain by being able to enable them.”
By Andrew Eversden
On lawmaker said the drone program was a “rare defense project that was going to deliver new combat capability in just a few years and is shelved after a decade worth of planning and investment.”
By Colin Clark
Australia’s new weapons catalog “will be absolutely invaluable to those governments and industries exploring ‘creative’ alternatives to defense acquisition […],” says Frank Cevasco, arms export expert.
By Colin Clark
In a recent meeting between the Navy Secretary and the president of Palau, the US signaled a commitment to “enhanced presence here and for more US Military activity in the future.”
By Paul McLeary
Filling the gap: Mobile connectivity for Army maneuver forces
Expeditionary forces jumping from island to island in the Indo-Pacific need a mobile way to command and control from vehicles, hotels, and homes.
The new map sparked sharp reactions from India, Nepal, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan. The new document was released one week before the G-20 summit in India. President Xi Jinping was to attend but news reports now indicate he will not.
By Colin Clark
“Australia has provided an imperfect but nevertheless useful exemplar of how governments can respond effectively to China’s multifarious security challenges,” writes author Euan Graham.
By Euan Graham
Above everything else there is the fundamental discussion of how will the rising power of China and the still mighty but relatively fading power of the United States compete.
By Colin Clark
The PLAN ship passed within 17 miles of the Harold E Holt naval station base near the Western Australia town of Exmouth, which boasts a VLF transmission facility for communications with submarines.
By Colin Clark
For the first time since December 1941, when Wake Island’s shore gunners sank the invading destroyer Hayate, Marine Corps artillery wants to kill ships. That could be a big boost for the Navy, which confronts ever more powerful Russian and Chinese fleets. Army artillery is also exploring anti-ship missiles, and the Marines may buy the…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Littoral Combat Ship has come under light fire from Congress because they worry especially about findings by operational testers that the ships cannot survive a firefight. Norman Friedman, a consultant at Gryphon Technologies with more than 30 military books to his name, argues in the following piece that critics need to consider that “change…
By Norman Friedman