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Defence Innovation and Invention: A Vision is Always Required

Military technology development needs to know where it is going – a vision is always required. Militaries are prone to misunderstand the difference between invention...

What makes China’s new Tianying stealth UAV a threat in contested airspace?

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) showcases an updated version of its Tianying stealth UAV, also known as Skyhawk. Designed for reconnaissance and...

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Defence Innovation and Invention: A Vision is Always Required

Military technology development needs to know where it is going – a vision is always required. Militaries are prone to misunderstand the difference between invention...

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Defence Innovation and Invention: A Vision is Always Required

Military technology development needs to know where it is going – a vision is always required. Militaries are prone to misunderstand the difference between invention...

Wargaming the Future of Climate Change

By RAND.ORG BRyan Rooney needed some way to convey the enormous risks and uncertainties of climate change. His audience was military: planners and leaders trying...

What makes China’s new Tianying stealth UAV a threat in contested airspace?

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) showcases an updated version of its Tianying stealth UAV, also known as Skyhawk. Designed for reconnaissance and...
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Germany’s military build up continues, but personnel shortages remain

By Linus Höller The German military continued its rearmament but still suffered from serious personnel shortages last year, a report presented to the country’s parliament on Tuesday showed. The paper...

Dismounted Situational Awareness in the Urban Battlespace

Historically, military forces favored battles in open terrain, as the confines of urban terrain, forests, or narrow mountain passages are the defender’s forte. Therefore,...

Russian research on space nukes and alternative counterspace weapons (part 2)

By Bart Hendrickx Part 1 summarized recent Russian academic literature on the effects of high-altitude nuclear explosions. The bulk of the research in this field seems...

The Microchip Revolution: Avionics at the Speed of Light in 2025

By John Persinos The aviation industry stands on the cusp of a technological revolution fueled by the introduction of super-fast microchips. These advanced semiconductors are...

Russian research on space nukes and alternative counterspace weapons (part 1)

By Bart Hendrickx In February, White House officials asserted that Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite system that would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty,...

Is bad data to blame for missing weapons parts?

By Lauren C. Williams Virtually all of the Army’s weapons are affected by delayed or back-ordered parts—and mismatched computer systems are largely to blame. And...

The new Moon race: Assessing Chinese and US strategies

By James Clay Moltz* China’s recent advances in cislunar space have spurred US fears. As a report by an influential defense think tank argues, “The contest over...

A Deep Dive Into China’s Military Strategy and Ambitions

The US Department of Defense’s annual report on Chinese military and security developments. In this post and podcast, we dissect the report, which isn’t just...

The Rise of Megacities Transforms the Nature of Urban Battlefield

Down streets darkened by dust and smoke and through narrow, shadowed alleys, the troops moved in teams, taking back the besieged town doorway by...

US Air Force Special Warfare: How Can Improve Its ‘Soft’ Skills

The Air Force Special Warfare training pipeline produces experts in combat search and rescue, tactical air control, and special reconnaissance who can do their...

Why a European Defense is needed

By Fabio A. Aversa According to Winston Churchill, golf is ‘a sport in which you hit a very small ball into a very small hole,...

America’s Air War in Europe: A guide to better understanding the lessons of World War II

By Phillip Meilinger Prior to 1939, Airmen dreamed the airplane could eliminate the horrors of war.  Instead of impaling a generation of young men on...