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As the former Secretary of the USAF and the architect of fifth generation airpower, Michael Wynne commented “What the reader will see herein is the architecture of the modern integration of economics diplomacy, and statecraft. Using Dr. Malmgren’s continuing work, this collection illustrates his unique perspective that he has brought to industry, finance and his efforts in Government.” Ambassador Malmgren was a counselor to several U.S. Presidents and an advisor to several major global corporations and a major thinker shaping the modern global trading system. This book provides ...

Este libro explora el emergente mundo autoritario multipolar y los desafíos que presenta para Estados Unidos y sus aliados. Los ensayos del libro examinan una serie de cuestiones, entre ellas el creciente poder económico y militar de China, la asertiva política exterior de Rusia, el declive del liderazgo mundial de Estados Unidos y el auge del autoritarismo global. Los autores sostienen que el mundo se dirige hacia un futuro más inestable e incierto, y que las democracias occidentales deben replantearse sus estrategias para hacer frente al nuevo orden mundial. Entre las cuestiones clave...

As the United States faces a global overload of strategic challenges and the concomitant challenge of shaping an effective and capable force to deal with these challenges but having serious budget stringencies, leveraging the unique capabilities which the United States already possesses is crucial. Whether it be the Aegis global enterprise, or the F-35 global enterprise or the tiltrotor enterprise, the United States has shaped unique warfighting capabilities which it can leverage as it shapes effective forces moving forward for todays and tomorrow’s challenges. This is a story of a unique...

This book describes the coming of the CH-53K Kilo to the USMC and to its first international customer, the Israeli Defence Force. It is based on extensive interviews with the persons involved in the development, testing, build, and maintenance of the new combat air system. For air system it is -- built by the digital thread development and manufacturing approach, the aircraft is designed with maintainability and fleet support in operations as a key focus of the program, If it were called CH-55 instead of the CH-53K perhaps one would get the point that these are very different air platforms,...

Training for military forces is in the throes of significant change. The threats are dynamic; there is always the reactive enemy; and technology fosters new ways to operate. Concepts of operations are evolving, most notably as U.S. and allied forces are focusing on force distribution to deal with the higher end threats authoritarian adversaries are fielding. Dr. Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake have visited the major training centers in the United States and several abroad as the state of the art of training is dynamically developing as well. In this book, they highlight their visits to a ...

This book highlights Italy's significant role in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The book details Italy's contributions to F-35 manufacturing and maintenance at the Cameri facility, highlighting its status as a key production and sustainment hub for European and allied partners. Furthermore, the book highlights the integration of the F-35B into the Italian Navy's ITS Cavour aircraft carrier and its implications for sea-based operations. Finally, the book discusses Italy's participation in multinational exercises, such as Pitch Black, showcasing its long-range deployment capabilities ...

This book addresses the coming of maritime autonomous systems to the U.S. Navy and allied fleets. They are obviously coming as well to adversarial forces as well. It is clear that maritime autonomous systems will become a key part of the modernization of the United States (U.S.) and allied security and combat forces. They will also become part of the adversarial forces and will need to be countered as well. Even though maritime autonomous systems are already here and ready to be deployed. there are the vested interests of maintaining a legacy approach to maritime operations and the thinking...

In this book, the noted historian, Dr. Kenneth Maxwell, provides an overview of Brazilian developments over the past decade. As the world has changed dramatically, Brazil’s role is changing as well. These essays have been written over the past decade and provide insights into Brazil’s domestic politics, the role of its military, its changing foreign policy role, and the significant conflicts of the past decade. These essays were written at the time of the events described, so it is a view of Brazil in “real time” so to speak. It is more like an intellectual photo album, than a movie...

The publication provides an overview of the USMC will use the Joint Strike Fighter or F-35B and is using the Osprey as part of its operations. This is one of the first books which addresses how the USMC will use the Joint Strike Fighter and the Osprey to transform their operations. The publication provides an overview of how aviation for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) shapes their entire capabilities and directs how they operate. USMC Aviation allows the USMC to be “three dimensional warriors” in fighting the “three block war.” Not only does aviation provide for 360-degree ...

Beginning with the year 2020, we have published an annual publication to highlight defense dynamics and developments over the past five years. This provides a unique insight into developments during this period by providing assessments published in real time during that period. We started with 2020 and highlighted the pandemic year. After that we started the series officially with ts annual identification, namely Defense XXI, Defense XII and Defense XXIII. 2024 was a notably year in the evolution of the competition between the liberal democracies and the authoritarian powers. The liberal ...

This is the fourth annual publication we have published at Second Line of Defense and Defense Information. Each of the four publications highlight themes from essays we have published during that year. We are living in a time of compressed history, and our essays in each volume captures the history emerging in that year. We focus on defense issues, so we have highlighted some of the key developments affecting the evolution of defense and security challenges facing the United States and its key allies in that year, as well as innovations and developments in selected military technologies and...

This book highlights the September 26, 2024 seminar of The Sir Richard Williams Foundation which was entitled: “Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective.” This seminar focused on how the force in being or the ready force was focused on improving its capability, its survivability and lethality for the fight tonight. For such a focus, one needs a sense of urgency for how to improve the force in the short to mid-term, rather than over emphasizing the long-term future and future force structure planning. In addition to the seminar report, Dr. Robbin Laird ...

This report focuses on MAWTS-1 in 2023. In 2023, I interviewed the CO of MAWTS-1, Col Eric Purcell, in April and then visited the command in November after the second WTI of the year. This provided a chance to discuss how MAWTS-1 had progressed in working enhanced force mobility for the USMC within the broader joint force, a key emphasis of the force design effort. The challenge is that while the Marines are working FARPs and other means to enhance force mobility, the joint force is in the throes of significant change, whether it be the U.S. Navy working distributed maritime operations or ...

This is a revised edition of the book originally published in July 2023. The original book was based on the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar held in March 2023 which occurred between the announcement of the new submarine program and the release of the strategic defence review at the end of April 2023. This edition adds the work done at the second 2023 Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar held on 27 September 2023. The first dealt with the way ahead with regard to deterrence strategy; the second dealt with the expanded role of multi-domain strike as an enabler of that strategy. The...

In this book, Dr. Laird provides an update on the ADF or the Australian Defence Force from the perspective of changes introduced in 2023 and embodied in the 2024 Defence Investment Plan. The core of the book is built around the Sir Richard Williams Foundation April 2024 seminar on multi-domain operations in support of an Australian maritime strategy. This book is the second in the series on Australian Defence and Deterrence the first having been published in 2023. Laird is a research fellow with the Sir Richard Williams Foundation and has been writing their bi-annual seminar reports since ...

This is a revised version of the book first published in 2023 and includes a new conclusion looking back at these early years from the standpoint of 2024. It is a book about the coming of the F-35. It tells the story of those in the military who worked to introduce the aircraft into the combat force. Visits throughout the world accompanied the standing up the aircraft and this book tells the story of those visits and the work of the warriors who made the F-35 global enterprise possible. According to the author: “It is my personal journey observing the development and evolution of the ...

In Australia and Indo-Pacific Defence: Anchoring a Way Ahead, author and editor of over thirty books, Robin Laird, brings to bear his expertise on defence and security affairs to make sense of contemporary Australian international security and defence policy. This is his third book focused on Australian defence. It reveals the sharp mind of a person very well connected in Australian defence policy, academic and military practitioner circles. Laird has expertly sought to engage with and understand perspectives of Australian defence and security experts, many of whom are associated with the ...

According to a 2012 Congressional Research Service Report: “In the fall of 2011, the Obama Administration issued a series of announcements indicating that the United States would be expanding and intensifying its already significant role in the Asia- Pacific, particularly in the southern part of the region. The fundamental goal underpinning the shift is to devote more effort to influencing the development of the Asia-Pacific’s norms and rules, particularly as China emerges as an ever-more influential regional power.” But given the continued deep involvement in the Middle Eastern land ...

This book brings together Professor Ken Maxwell's essays published since 2011 on global trends. This book is most likely to be read initially by the many followers of the work of Dr. Kenneth Maxwell, the historian. He is a well-respected and well-known historian of the history of Brazil and the Iberian Peninsula. Even though much of his work focuses on the 18th century, he is not an expert as understood in today's society. He is more like the philosophes of the 18th century, focusing on a subject but with a wide view. Together, these essays provide a comprehensive perspective on the modern ...