Tag: Defense

NATO aims to bolster investments in space, intelligence sharing (Theresa Hitchens – Breaking Defense)

NATO is working to up its game when it comes to intelligence gathering and sharing, in particular increasing investment in space capabilities, a senior...

US and UAE ink agreement formalizing Major Defense Partnership (Agnes Helou – Breaking Defense)

During President Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf, the US and United Arab Emirates signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) formalizing the establishment of...

Ensuring Australia’s defence through complex interdependence (Peter Layton – The Strategist)

Australia’s defence thinking is based on outdated grand strategies. Adopting a complex interdependence grand strategy could create robust connections with many countries, enhancing national...

EU, UK agree defense partnership as prelude to tighter cooperation (Rudy Ruitenberg – Defense News)

The European Union’s executive arm and the United Kingdom agreed on a security and defense partnership which they said will allow for closer cooperation...

US Defence Policy And Planning: What To Expect Next? (Will Jessett CBE – RUSI)

The Trump Administration is likely to adopt a more assertive defence policy than during his first term, with greater preparedness to threaten and use...

How to help the US Navy as it helps us: build a joint submarine facility (Michael Pezzullo – The Strategist)

There’s a way for Australia to strengthen its case for the US presidential certification it will need for acquiring Virginia-class submarines. It should do...

Coalition of the Willing (German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The new buzzword in European defense is the “coalition of the willing”. Proposed by France and the United Kingdom in February 2025, the initiative...

US Army Cuts Signal Emphasis on Readiness (Jack Watling – RUSI)

The US Army announced a series of organisational and capability decisions on 2 May, with Chief of Staff General Randy George promising more to...

Weaponizing the Electromagnetic Spectrum: The PRC’s High-powered Microwave Warfare Ambitions (Tin Pak, Yu-cheng Chen – The Jamestown Foundation)

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is rapidly expanding its arsenal of high-power microwave (HPM) weapons as part of its broader strategy to achieve dominance...

What else we could do with the money: AUKUS Plan Bs from a CSBA exercise (Toshi Yoshihara, Casey Nicastro – The Strategist)

Sceptics of AUKUS Pillar 1, the nuclear-submarine element of the Australian-UK-US defence technology partnership, have called on the Australian government to go for a...

European Defence Fund funnels money to drones, hypersonic defense, AI (Rudy Ruitenberg – Defense News)

The European Union’s executive arm picked 62 defense projects for a combined €910 million ($1 billion) in financing in the latest funding round by...

Trump 2.0 Will Escalate the Contest for Military AI Supremacy (Kyle Hiebert – Centre for International Governance Innovation)

Days after re-entering the White House, Donald Trump tore up Joe Biden’s directives on the US government’s oversight and use of artificial intelligence (AI)....

Explaining Xi’s PLA purges (Michael Clarke, Jade Guan – The Interpreter)

Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The...

No Russia in Papua: Indonesia’s quiet diplomacy speaks loudly (Hangga Fathana – The Strategist)

Indonesia’s low-key rejection of reported Russian interest in military basing in Papua says more than it appears to. While Jakarta’s response was measured, it...

Australia (still) needs a dedicated and public-facing national security adviser (Danielle Cave – The Strategist)

In the early months leading up to the 2025 federal election, Australia’s public debate was dominated by domestic issues with the ‘cost of living’...

Ukraine’s air force has survived. Taiwan’s almost certainly couldn’t (David Axe – The Strategist)

The Ukrainian air force went to war against invading Russian forces in February 2022 with just 125 combat aircraft concentrated at around a dozen...