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Whether or not Turkey finally gets its hands on the F-35B, Anadolu will become one of the most important ships the Turkish navy has ever operated. The...
“Battleships, in the end, are simply a delivery system for ordnance,” Farley concludes. “When other platforms became capable of delivering...
How deadly is a Battlecruiser?
Moscow only has one carrier. Why?
On the night of March 10, 1945, the U.S. Army Air Force conducted the most destructive attack in the history of human warfare. 279 B-29...
India has become one of the world’s pre-eminent naval aviation powers.
Is Australia going to take another look at the F-35B? Specifically, will Australia reconsider the acquisition of the F-35B for its Canberra- class...
Could it happen?
How did the United States go about planning for Phase IV of the Pacific War? Of course, Phase IV of U.S. World War II planning never existed, at least...
One word only: politics.
Here's what history tells us.
In a few short years, Japan will have its first real aircraft carriers since World War II. The modification of JS Izumo and JS Kaga to carry...
How close did Taiwan come to developing a nuclear weapons capability? Recent scholarship has painted a much clearer picture of Taiwan’s interest in...
A massive naval competition with American and Britain would have been a forgone conclusion.
A new report from the Defense Intelligence Agency indicates that China is working on two distinct stealth bomber programs. The first, well known to...
How?
These 5 things would do it.
Here are five problems that the next generation of aircraft-carrier architects will need to worry about.
Any guesses?
If a hostile power (let’s say Iran, for sake of discussion) appeared to be on the verge of mating nuclear devices with the systems needed to deliver...
Not all ballistic missiles submarines are built equal, and neither is all maritime geography. In a recent article at the Bulletin for Atomic...
In a few years, the U.S. may have new ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) with the capacity to strike at intermediate ranges. And if relations...
How does China’s air force learn, and what are its goals as a learning organization? A recent RAND report by Scott Harold investigated this question...
Japan is an exceedingly wealthy country with a large, robust, and technologically sophisticated shipbuilding industry. If it wants to supersede the...
Did the U.S. military make the wrong choices?
So how does China fight back against the U.S. trade offensive on the IP front? In my last column, I argued that it is becoming increasingly clear...
So what if it never existed?
So what if it never existed?
The United States and China do not share a common view of the state of intellectual property protection in China. For its part, China believes that it...
Wanna take a guess?
Combat you may have forgotten about.
Let the debate begin...
We take a look back at this memorable bomber that is headed for retirement.
Dr. Robert Farley with his annual WW3 list.
Conflicts over intellectual property protection continue to constitute one of the central fronts in the broader trade war between China and the United...
The idea of disengaging from the Middle East (and Europe) to refocus attention on the Asia Pacific is not new. The Obama administration sought to do...
Politics.
Would anyone miss it if it was never built?
What nations would you pick?
Japan appears to be prepared to take the next step to convert its Izumo-class helicopter destroyers into VSTOL (vertical and/or short take-off and...
Let the debate begin.
The "flying coffins".
Although it largely escaped the notice of American audiences, Dante Lam’s Operation Red Sea served to introduce the Chinese public to its new...
If war breaks out, that is.
If things go bad in the Sea of Azov...
"The targets of an attack against a carrier, in effect, would be U.S. military capabilities, public opinion, and elite opinion (defining elite as...
But she was noisy.
"In short, big planes still confer big advantages for air forces interested in strike capabilities. But fighters, whether of the legacy or the stealth...