Jane's Defence Weekly

Features

*Neighbourly intentions
Fifteen years after the Dayton Accords brought peace to the Western Balkans, the armed forces of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia have undertaken extensive ...
15-Mar-2010

*Cruising ahead
On 2 February the first of four offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) was launched during a ceremony at Damen...
15-Mar-2010

*Opinion: Tapping private forces in fight against piracy
As the winter monsoon lifts from the Indian Ocean, Somalia-based pirates are gearing up for another season of mayhem and lucrative ransom. Traditionally the ...
12-Mar-2010

*Navy on a new level: Israel Navy briefing
By far the smallest branch of the Israel Defence Force (IDF), the Israel Navy (IN) is a force in transition and has made an ...
05-Mar-2010

*The colour of money: US defence budget briefing
The global challenges facing the United States have shifted constantly since 1960, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
05-Mar-2010

*Proportionate force
At the outset of the US-led Global War on Terror (GWOT), Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of Defense, famously said: "I don't want ...
01-Mar-2010

*Spanish transition
The experience of recent decades has perhaps given the Spanish armed forces a capacity to adapt that is unrivalled by its NATO allies, even ...
22-Feb-2010

*Battle for survival
Armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) today are faced with a wide range of threats on the battlefield including mines, direct-fire weapons, top-attack weapons, indirect-fire weapons ...
12-Feb-2010

*Turret vision
Knowledge, it is said, is power. In the 21st century world of military power, acquisition of 'knowledge' comes under the capability referred to as ...
08-Feb-2010

*Beasts of burden
Freshly painted, outfitted with advanced systems, rearmed and restocked with nuclear fuel, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) was departing Northrop...
01-Feb-2010

*Exchange rate
As US reinforcements surge into Afghanistan, UK forces stand on the brink of a major C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) ...
25-Jan-2010

*Making decisions
India's defence industry remains a work in progress 63 years after independence, ill-equipped to discharge the country's oft-repeated goal of achieving 70 per cent ...
25-Jan-2010

*Partnerships of equality
The cross-border defence industrial alliances of the 1990s (and earliest years of the first decade of this century) remained shaped by the Cold War ...
18-Jan-2010

*Buying an advantage
When Singapore first became an independent state in 1965 there was little question that investment in defence needed to be at the top of ...
18-Jan-2010

*Deterrence at a discount?
In March 2007 a vote in the UK parliament endorsed government plans to renew the independent strategic nuclear deterrent by constructing a new generation ...
22-Dec-2009

*Power struggle
It seems an unlikely quirk of history that Asia's two great civilisations lived side by side for thousands of years and yet, for the ...
22-Dec-2009

*2009 Annual Defence Report: Europe
The defence planning of European countries this year was predictably dominated by policy shifts in the US and Russia. President Barack Obama's decision to ...
14-Dec-2009

*2009 Annual Defence Report: The Middle East and Africa
The beginning of 2009 brought the promise of a fresh start to the Middle East, with the implementation of new US policy and a ...
14-Dec-2009

2009 Annual Defence Report: Introduction
In military-geopolitical terms, 2009 will perhaps be most remembered as the year that Afghanistan - like Iraq before it - was subject to a surge...
14-Dec-2009

*2009 Annual Defence Report: The Americas
United States In 2009 the United States began to focus heavily on Afghanistan, where a significant increase in violence and accusations of rampant corruption ...
11-Dec-2009

*2009 Annual Defence Report: Business
The accommodative financial climate and the near decade-long global defence spending bull-run, which had shaped the military industrial landscape, lost momentum by the beginning ...
11-Dec-2009

*JDW 2009 Annual Defence Report: Asia Pacific
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia If 2008 was the year in which failure in Afghanistan began to seem distinctly possible to the NATO alliance, ...
09-Dec-2009

*Stretched wings: military airlift
With a few notable exceptions, many of today's global fleet of military fixed-wing transport aircraft are nearing the end of their useful service lives. ...
07-Dec-2009

*Bridging the gaps: The European Defence Agency
Although one of the EU's smallest and youngest entities, the European Defence Agency (EDA) has one of the most wide-ranging mandates of any. From...
27-Nov-2009

*Shooting guard: air defence systems - C-RAM
Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have seen the rapid development and fielding of many new items of equipment to meet changing threats. One of...
23-Nov-2009

*Brand new heavies: Strategic airlift capability
With the arrival in mid-October of its third and final large-body aircraft, NATO's new Heavy Airlift Wing (HAW) is now up and running, even ...
19-Nov-2009

*Japan's new dawn: Japan Country Briefing
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's new administration is undertaking a thorough review of Japan's alliance with the United States, which is bound to raise ...
12-Nov-2009

*Deter and disrupt: NATO in the Gulf of Aden
The kidnapping of British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler on 23 Oct- ober, following a spate of attacks on merchant vessels, brought fresh evidence ...
09-Nov-2009

*French revolution: European land systems part 3 - France
France, like many other countries in the world, has seen its vehicle industry go through a major restructuring in recent years with numerous mergers ...
09-Nov-2009

*Coming together: German defence industry
Germany's EU partners have already largely consolidated their industry according to their strategic interests. This has resulted in the creation of national champions such ...
29-Oct-2009

*The right call: close air support
NATO's troops use satellite radios and remote viewing terminals on a daily basis in Afghanistan to call in close air support (CAS), with its ...
29-Oct-2009

*Space on call: NCW part two - operationally responsive space
The level of ambition inherent in the US Department of Defense's (DoD) operationally responsive space (ORS) vision is quickly apparent by comparing its goals ...
23-Oct-2009

*Painful progress: Indonesia Country Briefing
The fall of Indonesia's President Suharto in 1998, after more than three decades in power, raised hopes of a new beginning not just for ...
16-Oct-2009

*Centre of attention: Regional overview, Central Asia
Nearly 20 years after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, the armed forces of the five Central Asian states - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan ...
12-Oct-2009

*Nordic shake-up: Scandinavian navies
Although the navies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are grouped and bound by a shared northern European history and geography, they cannot be ...
05-Oct-2009

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