Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was “shocked and saddened” by the “tragic” death. “Mr Abe was a giant on the world state – a leader in the G7, the G20 and the United Nations,” Albanese said. “His legacy was one of global impact and a profound and positive one for Australia.”
By Colin ClarkModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
China’s inclusion in NATO’s Strategic Concept isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, IISS’s Meia Nouwens tells Breaking Defense, but the “interesting part: what will come next?”
By Colin Clark
“It’s not just the continuity. It’s the fact that if they changed people you would have risked some delays” as new leaders are brought up to speed, said Neil James, head of the non-partisan Australia Defence Association. “The big challenge for AUKUS has always been the timeline, and this could have affected it.”
By Colin Clark
Campbell, the NSC’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said the US will launch a new effort next week to help the Pacific islands, including initiatives to build new embassies.
By Colin Clark
Colin Kahl, the undersecretary for defense for policy, said he hopes Russia’s troubles in Ukraine are “soaking in” as China eyes Taiwan.
By Aaron Mehta
Gen. Wei Fenghe described the US Indo-Pacific strategy as “an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific.” It is designed “to create conflict and confrontation, to contain and encircle others.”
By Colin Clark
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
Richard Marles disclosed the meeting, which was unplanned and took flight from a dinner the two men attended: “We’re sitting at the same table and we both agreed that it was important our two countries meet.”
By Colin Clark
US Defense Secretary says US does not seek an “Asian NATO,” but blasts China for “growing coercion” and “dangerous” activity in the region.
By Colin Clark
“The coordinated activity between liberal democracies that Beijing long suspected would inevitably fail, is seemingly more successful than it would previously have anticipated were possible,” writes Meia Nouwens of IISS.
By Meia Nouwens
Originally scheduled to last 30 minutes, the meeting between US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Wei Fenghe, went on for 56.
By Colin Clark
“We urge Australia to respect China’s national security interests and major concerns, and to be cautious with its words and deeds so as to avoid a miscalculation that could cause serious consequences,” Chinese Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.
By Colin Clark
The US pivot to the Pacific may be all about China, but it misses Beijing’s moves to fill a US void elsewhere, write a team from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
By Bradley Bowman, Zane Zovak, Ryan Brobst and Behnam Ben Taleblu
Though even global rivals had substantive discussions this time, “I imagine that it will start to get spicier,” an allied expert said of the next meeting of the UN group that will focus on threatening behavior by military space operators.
By Theresa Hitchens
America’s adversaries are developing tools to trick or destroy current missile tracking capabilities. It’s time to get back ahead of the curve, writes Christopher Stone of the Mitchell Institute.
By Christopher Stone