Ed Timperlake and Dr Robbin Laird, Australia Under Attack from China: How the U.S. Can Provide a Near Term Response, 12 June 2021 Link...

Dr Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake, Supporting Australia To Deter China Helps America, 11 June 2021 Link to article Supporting Australia...

Dr Robbin Laird, Next Generation Autonomous Systems: A Williams Foundation Special Report, 9 June 2021 In this report, the key themes...

Dr Robbin Laird, Defence Industry and Working with Defence in Shaping a Way Ahead for Autonomous Systems, 8 June 2021 Link to the article...

Dr Robbin Laird Rethinking Strategy: Warning Time, Events and Crisis Management Defense Info, 7 June 2021 Paul Dibb, the well-known...

Dr Robbin Laird, The Australian Army, Navy and Air Force Shape a Way Ahead for the Inclusion of Autonomous Systems, 5 June 2021 Link to...

Dr Robbin Laird, Perspectives on the Introduction of Autonomous Systems into Combat, 4 June 2021 Link to article Perspectives on the...

Dr Robbin Laird, Shaping the Way Ahead for Robotic and Autonomous Systems and ADF Force Development, 1 June 2021 Link to article Shaping...

Dr Robbin Laird, The Integrated Distributed Maritime Force: The Impact of Maritime Autonomous Systems, 29 May 2021 Link to article The...

Dr Robbin Laird The Quest for Next Generation Autonomous Systems: Impact on Reshaping Australian Defence Forces, Defense.info 25 May 2021...

Next Generation Autonomous Systems National Gallery of Australia 8 April 2021 Final Report Dr Robbin Laird Coming soon Synopsis and...

Dr Robbin Laird The Strategic Shift and the Role of Airpower: A Discussion with Ben Lambeth Second Line of Defense, 10 April 2021 I have...

Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Featured Article in Second Line of Defense 28 March 2021 Last Fall, 2nd Fleet hosted the 2020 version of...

Robbin Laird Second Line of Defense 23 March 2021 A year ago, I was in Australia and working on my Australian OPV report. I visited...

The Future of Unmanned Military Systems by Arthur H. Barber III Chief Analyst, Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. 19 February, 2021...

Brian Weston 'On Target - 'Operational Presence and Persistence ‒ Personnel' in Australian Defence Business Review, Jan/Feb 2021 p.72 The...

Dr Robbin Laird, Joint by Design: The Evolution of Australian Defence Strategy. 24 December 2020 Link to book details Joint by Design:...

Recently, Dr Laird continued his discussion with Brendan Sargeant, the well-known and well-regarded Australian strategist about how best...

Recently, Dr Laird had a chance to talk with Ross Babbage, a leading Australian strategist about the pressure Beijing is applying...

Brian Weston 'On Target - 'A new challenge - operational presence and persistence!' in Australian Defence Business Review, Nov/Dec 2020 p...

With the European Commission spearheaded a closer relationship with China, the gap — not just geographical — between Australia and Europe...

In the release of the new Australian defence strategy on July 1, 2020, Prime Minister Morrison highlighted the important role which...

Second Line of Defense have published our latest book which is entitled, Joint By Design: The Evolution of Australian Defence Strategy....

One of the themes of recent On Target columns has been how recent force structure decisions have shaped the evolution of the RAAF into a pot

Given the geo-political changes taking place in the Indo-Pacific, perhaps it is time for Australia to focus on the preparedness of the ADF t

Brian Weston - the growing importance of Australia's First Island Chain to Australia's national security. Part 2.

MAJGEN Gus McLachlan AO (Retd) shares his thoughts on how to best approach force structure to gain a winning advantage.

Brian Weston - continuing theme in Chinese strategic thinking is the concept of “island chains” with the First Island Chain stretching from

MAJGEN Gus McLachlan AO (Retd) shares his thoughts on how to best approach force structure to gain a winning advantage.

Brian Weston - the activities of 1st October 2019 had little to do with some four millennia of China’s history.."

Brian Weston - Williams placed emphasis on Australia’s proximity to South-east Asia and of the importance of Australia’s north

Alan Stephens - continues the story by describing Sir Richard Williams’ strategy for defending Australia.

Brian Weston - expands on the huge task Richard Williams faced when the Australian Air Force was established on 31 March, 1921 ‒ the prefix

Brian Weston - outline of who was Richard Williams, and why is there a foundation bearing his name.

Brian Weston - announcement in 1968 that Britain would withdraw from its interests 'East of Suez' was to have long reaching consequences...

Brian Weston -A national commitment of impressive proportions...led to the establishment of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO),

Brian Weston - culmination of these developments saw, by 1959, 50% of Australia’s operational fighter force (two squadrons CAC Sabre

The Malayan Emergency foreshadowed the long timescales involved in conducting counter-insurgency warfare

It was the declaration, on 18 June 1948, of the commencement of the Malayan Emergency following the murder of three British estate managers

The 11,500 men of the RAAF who fought as part of the RAF’s Bomber Command in World War II comprised only 2 per cent of all Australians who e

It might seem curious, therefore, that three of the greatest battles in which Australians have fought are not acknowledged.

“Network-centric” warfare has become something of a cliché in advanced defence forces, especially for today’s “fifth-generation” era of capa

It was the 19th century British prime minister, Lord Palmerston, who famously remarked that in international relations there are “no eternal

Air supremacy has been the essential start-point of every Western-led military campaign from the end of World War II up to today. The West’s

The new FEGs were the Tactical Fighter Group (TFG), which included the supporting air direction units of the Air Defence Ground Environment

command arrangements meant there was no single appointment responsible for the oversight of either the tactical fighter force or the tactica

Following the conclusion of World War II, it was therefore not surprising the RAAF included the notion of an operational air group in its po

As one of the world’s oldest air forces, the RAAF has some interesting history in how it has organised its elements of air power. Initially,

This year has seen many 75th anniversaries of battles and campaigns from the darkest hours of 1942 with the Battle of the Coral Sea (4 to 8

Like the two previous fighter transitions, each with their unique characteristics and challenges, the introduction of the F-35A will pose so