May 30, 2020
Electronics & EW, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Space Technology, Defense & Exploration
Military has become highly dependent on satellites for high data rate beyond line of sight communications as well as network centric operations. Satellite communications are also required to support military operations that are becoming more complex as conflict areas grow more dispersed on a global scale. The ever increasing …
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May 29, 2020
Defense & Military, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Strategy, Policy & Governance
China’s People’s Liberation Army is deploying increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned combat aerial vehicles. PLA is seeking to close the technological and capability gap with other leading military powers such as the United States, as well as to develop systems that are able to fulfill its foreseeable military …
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May 5, 2020
Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Navy & Maritime
The mineral scarcity and rising prices of gold, copper and rare earth minerals is creating great interest among many nations for deep ocean mineral mining. The oceans, which cover seventy percent of our earth’s surface are believed to be able to satisfy our need of minerals like gold, copper, silver, …
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May 3, 2020
Defense & Military, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
Brazil is the largest and most important nation in South America, with 35 percent of its total population, 47 percent of its total size, and nearly half of its total GDP. It is the largest and most populous country in the continent; and it benefits from a favourable geographic position, …
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April 26, 2020
Cyber & IW, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
Blockchain is a transformative technology for the two billion people in the world currently underserved by financial institutions. The technology has the potential to enhance privacy, security and freedom of conveyance of data. Blockchain is based on open, global infrastructure, decentralized public ledger of transactions that no one person or …
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April 21, 2020
Army & Land, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Weapons & Munitions
As the threat for Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (RAM) increases around the world, the need for a system to detect and alert Soldiers of incoming rounds for military locations becomes vital to mission success and force survivability. Military installations such as forward operating bases are vulnerable to rocket, artillery and …
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April 19, 2020
Electronics & EW, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
For NATO forces, the Electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is an essential part of military operations, so much so that many Allied leaders now see the EME as an operational environment and a part of the battlespace where friendly forces manoeuvre in time, location, and spectrum to create electromagnetic effects in support …
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March 14, 2020
Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Thermal, Propulsion & Energy, Weapons & Munitions
A neutron beam can destroy electronics and that would be useful in warfare. The U.S. Defense Strategic Defense Initiative put into development the technology of a neutral particle beam to be used as a weapon in outer space. Neutral beam accelerator technology was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. According to …
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March 13, 2020
Cyber & IW, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries
According to the World Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Risks Report, cyber-security is recognised as one of the greatest threats to business worldwide, and the global cost of crimes in cyberspace is estimated to be $445bn. By 2021, cybercrime damage is estimated to hit $6 trillion annually. To put that in …
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March 4, 2020
Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Industry & Market Dynamics
The rising tensions between the US and China has put Australia is a very awkward position. Its defence traditionally relied on the US which is now challanged by China. United States Defence Secretary General James Mattis released the National Defense Strategy Commission’s assessment of the Pentagon’s defence strategy, warned that …
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