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IN 2009, the U.S. Navy finally began construction of the first new type of aircraft carrier in nearly thirty-five years. Kyle Mizokami looks as why China and Russia will dread the USS FORD which fully takes the nuclear supercarrier into the twenty-first century.

Having rejected indigenously built 'Tejas' as too heavy, the Indian Navy has launched a Request for Information to procure 57 multi-role combat aircraft for...

Travis Howard and José de Arimatéia da Cruz look at the cyber threats to the US Navy, a vast, worldwide organization with unique missions and challenges, with information security (and information warfare at large) with more thanr 320,000 active duty personnel, 274 ships with over 20 percent of them deployed across the world at any one time.

Work began Thursday on Turkey's first national frigate as part of the national vessel project. Speaking at a ceremony at the Istanbul Shipyard, Defense...

Indian Navy's only operational aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya will soon to have an (Automatic Teller Machine) ATM on-board. Country's largest Public Sector Bank State...

WHAT happens when an active volcano erupts in the Philippines followed by a Category 5 typhoon striking the same area just five days later?...

Speaking to the Army War College in early 2015, Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work charged the Army with developing a new operational concept to account for the changing character of war, a concept he termed “AirLand Battle 2.0.”

By Douglas Gates* CHINA'S seizure of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the South China Sea last month garnered widespread attention. The drone...

By LT Robert “Jake” Bebber USN and Professor Richard J. Harknett The United States has been operating without a Grand Strategy for nearly 25 years. First, it was essentially on auto-pilot in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union (the grand strategic endstate of containment) and then post-9/11 it became tactically oriented in reacting to global terrorism.

Aidan Morrison recently attended the official Defence Industry Briefing in Sydney for not one, but two major ship-building projects: SEA 1180, the Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV); and SEA 5000, the Future Frigate. At times. We reconvened at 10:00am to hear from the project directors themselves. At times brevity turned from refreshing to alarming, he writes.