Tag: Defense

French Navy tests unmanned beach assault, expands drone tactics (Rudy Ruitenberg – Defense News)

The French Navy is stepping up drone use in the air and in the water, relying almost entirely on unmanned systems to recapture a...

U.S. Defense Intelligence Flags Rivals’ Growing Military Use of Quantum Tech (Quantum Insider)

The 2025 DIA threat assessment warns that quantum technologies are nearing operational military use, with rival nations investing in sensing, secure communications, and computing...

US troops in Korea may soon switch focus from Pyongyang to Beijing (Gabriela Bernal – The Interpreter)

In all the years since the 1953 armistice that saw a cessation of fighting in the Korean war, US troops have been based in...

A chance for Australia to grab: Europe’s offer of a security pact (Bart Hogeveen – The Strategist)

Australia should accept the European Union’s proposal to form a defence and security agreement. The closer relationship would complement Australia’s main security arrangements—the US...

New Zealand’s defence plan lifts spending, emphasises partnerships (Steven Paget – The Strategist)

The Five Eyes are really four eyes and a wink, according to a joke that derides New Zealand’s limited defence spending. Publication of the...

Now that’s innovation: Ukrainian army units compete for weapons; start-ups compete for their business (Henry Campbell – The Strategist)

Fast-paced, iterative, gritty and incredibly successful innovation is sustaining Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s invasion. The country’s latest defence industry revolution is the Brave1 Market,...

Is Taiwan prepared to fight for itself? (Vincent So – The Interpreter)

Support for Taiwan is often presented as a binary: the West either defends a fellow democracy or abandons it to authoritarianism. But the real...

Golden Dome looks technically doable, but brings strategic complications (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan – The Strategist)

The plan for a Golden Dome missile defence system in the United States looks technologically feasible but nonetheless raises doubts around factors such as...

Eyes over the paddock: farm monitoring with Chinese drones is a national security risk (Jason Van der Schyff – The Strategist)

Australia’s national security conversation often focuses on critical minerals, undersea cables, sovereign cloud and satellite capabilities. Yet one area remains underexamined: the quiet, high-resolution...

Northern Australian defence infrastructure can support cooperation with Indonesia (Nathaniel Streher – The Strategist)

Under the 2023 Defence Strategic Review, investment and development are shifting toward northern Australia. This aims to reposition Defence capabilities and build a stronger...

The Armed Forces of the Future (Michael Froman – Council on Foreign Relations)

The future of defense strategy requires restructuring forces for modern threats, focusing deployments on critical regions, accelerating tech integration, reforming procurement and budgets, revitalizing...

Golden Dome creates a new missile defense bargain with US partners (Léonie Allard and Jean-Loup Samaan – Atlantic Council)

New details are emerging about the White House’s “Golden Dome” initiative, a missile-defense system intended to intercept long-range and hypersonic missiles fired at the...

Israel buys $55 million in helo protection systems from Elbit for Apaches, Black Hawks (Seth J. Frantzman – Breaking Defense)

The Israeli Ministry of Defense will acquire $55 million-worth of protection systems from Israel’s Elbit Systems for its fleet of Apache and Black Hawk...

Europe’s defense investments signal big wins for American industry (Jovita Neliupšienė – Defense News)

European nations are answering the call to invest more in our own defense readiness with a nearly one trillion-dollar plan to buy new weapons...

Special operations are becoming the Pentagon’s future ‘normal’ (Patrick Tucker – Defense One)

Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from buying...

Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175B, be ready in three years (Patrick Tucker – Defense One)

An architecture, a price tag, and a development leader have been set for the ambitious Golden Dome anti-missile defense system, President Trump said Tuesday....