Up Gunning: CIWS Threats and Responses
Dr. Lee Willett - Whether to meet state-based or asymmetric threats, close-in weapons system capabilities remain central to naval operations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Western navies...
Myanmar’s Army – A law unto itself
Anthony Davis - Since the explosion of the crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in August last year, the Myanmar Army has become an international...
Australia Recapitalises Defence Force
Andrew Drwiega - Australia’s defensive posture for the next 20 years is being guided by the perceptions of its 2016 White Paper.
Australia’s rich mineral deposits...
Taiwan’s Cruise Missile Deterrent Strategy
Sino-Taiwanese relations have been chilly ever since Tsai Ing-wen became president of the Republic of China (RoC) in May 2016, which resurfaced the million-dollar...
Modernising The Philippines Armed Forces
Andrew Drwiega - The second five year plan in the ambitious 15 year Philippine armed forces modernisation strategy is moving beyond counter-insurgency and onto ‘big-ticket’...
Competitive advantage
Dr. Lee Willett - The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) sees people as central to winning the next fight.
Over the last decade, several factors have converged...
Malaysia’s Defence Doldrums
Dzirhan Mahadzir - Despite an approaching Defence White Paper, fiscal frugality looks set to dominate near-to mid-term defence acquisition projects.
Despite a change of ruling party...
Philippines Insurgency concerning but controllable
Amplified by a suicide bombing and ongoing military clashes, alarm bells are ringing loudly across Southeast Asia: Mindanao, it seems in some quarters, is...
India’s Modernisation Challenge
Debalina Ghoshal - In 2018, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman caused concern among many analysts and policy makers when she stated that India had ammunition...
The MRAP Story: Learning from History
The sudden and widespread use by insurgents of IEDs in Iraq caught regular forces off-guard, and triggered the urgent need to look back at...
