Was the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship a mistake?
The US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme described a new naval dawn at its outset, offering a two-variant class…
20 Jan 2023
Lacking ‘clarity or purpose’, UK’s strategic policy receives heavy criticism from the House of Lords
The UK’s cross-party House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee (IRDC) released a trenchant rebuke of the Government’s strategic policy, as set forth in the 2021 Integrated Review and…
06 Jan 2023
Indo-Pacific wave of defence trade for Malaysia and South Korea
Malaysia's plans to upgrade its current inventory to deal with the territorial disputes and protect its territory in the South China Sea will result in the country's defence spending increasing…
23 Dec 2022
Russo-Ukraine war equipment loss ten times that of Moscow’s Chechen conflicts
The past ten months of combat operations in the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war has resulted in a level of equipment destruction not seen in Europe since the Second World War, with…
20 Dec 2022
Seabed warfare is a ‘real and present threat’
Seabed warfare truly began in the 1960s with operations such as the United States Navy's Operation Ivy Bells, a cooperative effort by the US Navy, CIA, and NSA to wiretap…
19 Dec 2022
Predictive maintenance in US military needs action: GAO
A report published by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) on 8 December found that while the Department of Defense (DoD) had issued a policy for predictive maintenance in 2002,…
12 Dec 2022
Lessons in lethality: Global Defence Technology 138
This latest issue of Global Defence Technology once more brings you all the latest insight and analysis into the technologies, policies, and influencing factors in the defence space. Inflation might…