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Assessing the Credibility of Manned Platforms in Contemporary Drone-Rich Combat Environment

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Emerging Threats, Government & Politics, Strategic Adversariesactive protection systems, aerial domain, air-defense missiles, air-to-air missiles, and concepts discussed throughout the paper. The keywords below capture the core topics, and evolving strategies highlighted in the document.manned platforms, armored vehicles, asymmetric tactics, ballistic missiles, Black Sea conflict, blue waters, CIWS, Close-in Weapon Systems, combined arms, contextual warfare., cope cages, cruise missiles, DART projectiles, DEAD, decoy systems, defensive technologies, drone swarms, drones, electronic countermeasures, force-multipliers, FPV drones, HELs, high-energy lasers, houthis, human decision-making, I approached your request by analyzing the main themes, jammers, kamikaze drones, kill-chain, laser-guided bombs, maneuver warfare, Manned-Unmanned Teaming, military power, mission-kill, Modern warfare, MUM-T, naval domain, naval drones, operational domains, Red Sea crisis, Russia-Ukraine war, sea control, SEAD, submarine, surface combatants, technologies, torpedo, UAS, unmanned aerial systems, unmanned systems, vehicle mounted jammers

Assessing the Credibility of Manned Platforms in Contemporary Drone-Rich Combat Environment

Ahmad Ibrahim0 Comments

Published: April 23, 2026 Proliferation of unmanned systems in modern warfare has popularized the notion that traditional platforms have reached the end of their operational relevance. Particularly, the Russia-Ukraine war…

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CARRIER, CHOKEPOINT, AND COERCION: THE DYNAMICS OF IRAN-US CONFLICT

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CARRIER, CHOKEPOINT, AND COERCION: THE DYNAMICS OF IRAN-US CONFLICT

Ahmad Ibrahim0 Comments

Published: March 9, 2026 (Editor’s Note: This article was submitted before the U.S.-Iran conflict began. We intentionally left the article as “forward looking” to signify the value of the analysis.) …

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American Alliances in East Asia: An Australian Perspective

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American Alliances in East Asia: An Australian Perspective

Christine M. Leah0 Comments

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Ely Ratner outlines a case for a Pacific Defense Pact. The concept of collective defense in the Asia-Pacific is not a novel idea, however, the historical…

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