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Open mike 29/04/2025

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Euan Graham |Justin Bassi |Malcolm Davis

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 29th, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Daily review 28/04/2025

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Justin Bassi |Malcolm Davis |Bernard Hickey |Cynthia Mehboob

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
Stop the World: UK defence strategy, AUKUS and deterrence with General Sir Jim Hockenhull

Nov 12, 2024 | aspi.org.au | Malcolm Davis |Cathy Moloney

Please enable javascript to access the full functionality of this site news Stop the World: UK defence strategy, AUKUS and deterrence with General Sir Jim Hockenhull Stop the World: UK defence strategy, AUKUS and deterrence with General Sir Jim Hockenhull In this episode of Stop the World, ASPI’s Dr Malcolm Davis and Dr Cathy Moloney speak with special guest General Sir Jim Hockenhull, Commander of the United Kingdom’s Strategic Command. They discuss the global strategic outlook and the...
Satcom future in doubt, industry left adrift as Defence cancels project

Nov 5, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Malcolm Davis

Secure satellite communication is a key requirement for ADF ability to undertake joint and integrated operations in a multi-domain operational environment. Known as satcom, it forms the informational backplane and foundation of modern warfare. Without this critical space support, military forces in the air, sea and land domains are deaf, dumb and blind. They cannot fight.
The Case for Space Control: An Australian Perspective — Global Security Review

Nov 5, 2024 | globalsecurityreview.com | Malcolm Davis |Joshua Stowell

Space is an operational domain that is highly contested and in a crisis could quickly become a warfighting environment. Space is “militarized” through the deployment of satellites to support a range of terrestrial military tasks. Both the Soviet Union and the United States developed anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon technologies during the Cold War, yet it is only much more recently that such counterspace technologies proliferated in the hands of adversary actors such as China and Russia.
Let's arm Ukraine - Openforum

Oct 20, 2024 | openforum.com.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis

The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.
After the gift of tanks, Australia needs a long-term approach to supporting Ukraine

Oct 19, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis

The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.
The Starship Revolution in Space

Oct 19, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Malcolm Davis
The Starship Revolution in Space

Oct 19, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Malcolm Davis

SpaceX took a big step towards full reusability of space launchers on 13 October, a step towards a transformation in accessing space far more cheaply, frequently and with big payloads. The remarkably successful fifth test flight of the Starship launcher on that day saw a spectacular recovery of the rocket’s 300-ton first stage, Super Heavy, into the arms of the launch pad gantry.
The Starship revolution in space

Oct 16, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Malcolm Davis

SpaceX took a big step towards full reusability of space launchers on 13 October, a step towards a transformation in accessing space far more cheaply, frequently and with big payloads. The remarkably successful fifth test flight of the Starship launcher on that day saw a spectacular recovery of the rocket’s 300-ton first stage, Super Heavy, into the arms of the launch pad gantry.