Tom Malley The cooling properties of the Stirling engines will boost the strength of the powerful microwave weapon, with tests showing it consumes just one-fifth of the energy of other systems. China has made similar models in the past but none that omit this kind of power - and certainly none … [Read more...]
Ukraine’s Ammunition Hunger Becomes a Famine
Nico Lange The lack of artillery and air defense ammunition is having a serious effect on the frontlines, with Russian forces now slowly advancing. The situation on Ukraine’s eastern front is now very serious. In Avdiivka, it is becoming more critical by the day. After the failure of the … [Read more...]
Nonstate armed actors in 2024: The Middle East and Africa
Vanda Felbab-Brown Vanda Felbab-Brown Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology @VFelbabBrown January … [Read more...]
US reaffirms One China policy during meeting with PRC
The United States reaffirmed its One China policy during a meeting between the two nations in early January and reiterated the country’s enduring commitment to freedom of navigation exercises in the Indo-Pacific. The renewed commitments were made during the 2024 US-PRC Defense Policy … [Read more...]
The French Navy Strongly Present for Surveillance and Deterrence in the North
From Astri Edvardsen Translation Birgitte Annie Molid Martinussen Norsk versjon. Just after New Year’s, the FS Bretagne embarked on a patrol mission from Brest in Brittany on France’s northwest coast to the High North – le grand Nord. This is one of the French Navy’s multi-role … [Read more...]
The Coming Storm of Autonomous War Robots and the West’s Dangerous Phobias
Dr. Konstantinos Grivas EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war in Ukraine is acting as a super-accelerator in the development of low-cost, low-tech, mass-produced robotic military systems – robot armies, in other words – by actors with little financial or technological ability. One of the biggest questions … [Read more...]
Ukraine Military Shake Up Stokes Uncertainty Over War Path
Natalia Drozdiak Ukraine’s reshuffle of its top military brass is stoking uncertainty over the direction of the conflict with Russia as the US Congress continues to block aid for Kyiv. After weeks of speculation and mounting acrimony between the two, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy … [Read more...]
US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that now will never fly
Jen Judson The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s most significant program cancellations of the last decade. The service had already spent … [Read more...]
Smoke or Substance? NATO-Japanese Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Ryan Ashley and Jada Fraser Ever since the inclusion of Italy, NATO has had a more complicated relationship with maritime geography than its name implies. Now, with challenges to the international order appearing across multiple flanks, the alliance is trying to figure out how to further its … [Read more...]
The end of the US’ pre-eminence in the Middle East
With the US killing a Kataib Hezbollah commander, Iran will exploit the US' weakness with attacks on US bases and Israeli ports, creating the next test of the US' tolerance for escalation. Firas Modad Commercial Summary: The US’ position in the Middle East is extremely weak. Most analysts seem … [Read more...]