Defence Notes
Opinion: Can India escape the morass of bungled procurements?
With India hosting its biennial DefExpo exhibition early next month, in yet another new and inconvenient location, it is a timely reminder to consider the ...
Digital Battlespace
Opinion: BeiDou – Friend or foe in space, sea, air and land?
At 01:43 on 5 November, China launched a Long March-3B carrier rocket with the 49th satellite aboard of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from ...
Defence Notes
Opinion: The PLA is full of contradictions
If anyone was watching television or YouTube footage of the 70th anniversary parade by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Beijing on 1 October, it ...
Defence Notes
Opinion: USMC commandant’s guidance turns from sandbox to Asia
It took a while, but the USMC officially woke up to China a few months ago. The new Marine Corps Commandant Gen David Berger’s formal ...
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Land Warfare
Opinion: Japan’s enduring jointness jumble
24th September 2019
On paper the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) is a formidable force. For example, the national army is replete with the latest-generation main battle tank, ...
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Defence Notes
Comment: Mysterious ship offloads military cargo in Hong Kong
3rd September 2019
In the hours of darkness of 28 August, a large Chinese cargo ship disgorged unknown amounts of troops and military equipment at Stonecutters Island Naval ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Who becomes the world’s supplier of affordable fighters now?
23rd August 2019
Over the past few decades, Asian nations that were either friendly to or aligned with the US were some of the biggest customers for lightweight ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: How China’s fingerprints are all over Talisman Sabre
25th July 2019
This month more than 34,000 troops completed Exercise Talisman Sabre. Apart from its sheer scale, what is remarkable about the biennial exercise is the degree ...
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Naval Warfare
Opinion: Taiwan has a naval dilemma
19th June 2019
New users can access this article and all our other Premium News by signing up for a free 24 hour trial HereExercise Han Kuang recently concluded ...
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Naval Warfare
Opinion: China preposterously lays claim to Taiwan Strait
15th May 2019
Last month China grossly overstepped the mark by acerbically criticising a foreign warship passing through the Taiwan Strait, an international right of way that separates ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: China, Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine
17th April 2019
The Congressional Research Service released a report titled ‘China’s Engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean’ on 11 April, and it raised serious concerns over ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Australia remains ‘regionally superior’
13th March 2019
Despite a revolving door at the prime ministerial and political levels – punctuated by the latest news that Defence Minister Christopher Pyne is retiring this ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: US-China military engagement proves a dead end
20th February 2019
In 2008 the USMC Commandant Gen James Conway visited the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Marine Corps. He gave a pep talk along the lines ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: US begins standing up to China… finally
23rd January 2019
Say or think what you will about President Donald Trump – his divisive style means you either love or hate him – but the US ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: China’s dangerous formula of defence spending and paranoia
12th December 2018
Almost a decade ago, The Geobukseon was in Beijing having dinner with representatives of the China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC). For the ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: The stakes rise in Pacific’s ‘Great Game’
27th November 2018
The South Pacific region is shaping up as a massive maritime chessboard upon which China and the US are beginning to manoeuvre with greater geopolitical ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Chinese confidential – the missing link in US intelligence
17th October 2018
The US is way behind China in gathering intelligence. If America and its allies are to have any hope of keeping the next Cold War ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Stilwell considered for Thornton job
3rd October 2018
Sources within Washington’s Beltway indicate that retired USAF Brig Gen David Stilwell will serve as the next Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: South Korea – the next big defence exporter?
19th September 2018
In terms of Asian defence companies, China is clearly the big-hitter. The International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) recently published research listing three Chinese companies ...
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Naval Warfare
Opinion: Southeast Asia’s mixed record on airborne maritime patrol
22nd August 2018
The P-8A maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (MPRA) has become a ‘poster boy’ in the Indo-Pacific region. Gradually supplanting the P-3C Orion as a workhorse ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: India produces hugely expensive light fighter in just 35 years
8th August 2018
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter has for years made headlines for its high cost, but there is in fact another fighter programme challenging it in terms ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Trump’s four horsemen threaten China’s military
25th July 2018
The Trump White House is an existential threat to Beijing’s ‘mandate of heaven’, leaving China with a hate list of Trump appointees that are now ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Why is China tucking into Africa?
11th July 2018
There is a lot of hysteria concerning Chinese inroads into the African continent. For example, Hilary Clinton warned back in 2011: ‘We don’t want to ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Korean Peninsula 2021 – positive but with storm clouds
27th June 2018
July 2021 – It is now three years since the Singapore Summit between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. ...
