{"id":12027,"date":"2014-01-31T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=12027"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:50:24","slug":"aspi-suggests-31jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-31jan\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Welcome back to our weekly round-up of new reports and updates in the defence and security realm.<\/p>\n The Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict released a new report yesterday on Indonesians and the Syrian Conflict<\/a> (PDF). It opens with this ominous line: \u2018The conflict in Syria has captured the imagination of Indonesian extremists in a way no foreign war has before.\u2019 The report goes on to explain why Syria attracts Indonesian fighters and explores how they\u2019re funded. The IPAC release coincides with Andrew Zammit\u2019s new post published this morning on how jihadist foreign fighters perceive the Syrian conflict<\/a> and their potential impact upon their return.<\/p>\n Turning now to technological developments, this Aviation Week<\/i> piece<\/a> discusses the US Navy\u2019s reaction to China\u2019s Mach 10 test of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). What\u2019s an HGV? The article explains:<\/p>\n An HGV can execute a pull-up maneuver after entering the atmosphere and approach its target in a relatively flat glide. It will therefore be detected later than a ballistic warhead; there is less time to react to it or to shoot at it again after a miss. Because the HGV can maneuver aerodynamically, it is much harder to hit\u2014the defensive missile must be able to outmaneuver it \u2014and it can be guided with precision onto its target. Gliding extends the missile’s range, so that the relatively vulnerable mid-course phase of its flight can occur farther from the target and its defenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n US PACOM commander, Admiral Samuel Locklear, says \u2018that particular [HGV] test doesn\u2019t bother me. This is not about China.\u2019 Read more about HGV\u2019s implications here<\/a> (including some input from Andrew Davies<\/a> on the damage caused by the missile\u2019s kinetic energy).<\/p>\n Sticking with technology, the Center for a New American Security has just released a report called \u201820YY: preparing for war in the robotic age<\/a>\u2019. Authors Robert O. Work and Shawn Brimley warn the US to be ready for a new era in which \u2018unmanned and autonomous systems will play central war-fighting roles for the United States, its allies and partners, and its adversaries.\u2019<\/p>\n For the military history booklovers, check out these reviews by ASPI\u2019s Stephen Loosley for Max Hastings\u2019 Catastrophe<\/i><\/a> on diplomatic and military strategies of the European great powers in 1914, and Mike Carlton\u2019s First Victory\u20141914\u2014HMAS Sydney\u2019s Hunt for the German Raider Emden<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n Lastly, for some military humour, here are Sweden\u2019s marines lip-syncing \u2018Greased Lightning\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Natalie Sambhi is an analyst at ASPI and editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist. Image courtesy Flickr user US Navy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back to our weekly round-up of new reports and updates in the defence and security realm. The Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict released a new report yesterday on Indonesians and the Syrian Conflict …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[52,275,66,8,670,274,332],"class_list":["post-12027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspi-suggests","tag-china","tag-foreign-fighters","tag-history","tag-indonesia","tag-robots","tag-syria","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n