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Tapi lupakan aja. Worst case scenario dari so called “Trump’s Liberation Day” baru-baru ini kemungkinan bakal buat China punya daya tawar lebih di negara-negara hedging Asia Tenggara, termasuk Indonesia. Kalo China semakin penting di negara-negara ini, klaim sepihak mereka di LCS (nine-dash...

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/04/03/japan-develops-new-missiles-designed-to-repel-an-invasion/ A2/AD here, there and everywhere. If we talking about A2/AD, coastal defense, then it would be related to the concept of “Fleet in Being”. Control or compete against adversaries...

Wasn’t that Turkish military like this before? – Especially Turkish military memorandum ‘97(?). Parliamentary composition up to the people, but the executive/PM appointed by the legislative, don’t try Instead of just trias politica (legislative, executive, judiciary) checking and balancing...

“Power tend to corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely” That’s why checks and balances are needed, to keep those in power in check and not just do as they want. And it can be found in democracy and freedom, two things that are intertwined. You’re all are free men. Not chairs or tables that...

“Ze’evi visited Singapore secretly and proposed that instead of a huge military bureaucracy, Singapore would create a lean, integrated organization without “too many generals and too few soldiers.” https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-749904 Singapore dari awal diajarin Israel entah gimana...

NGAD USAF namanya Boeing F-47. Jarang-jarang proyek Phantom Works Boeing menang lawan Skunk Works Lockheed Martin. U-2, SR-71 proyek Kelly Johnson Skunk Works terkenal, F-35 Skunk Works juga https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/trump-announces-lethal-47-fighter-jet-120028045

Dibanding US Department of Energy, Department of Defense punya proyek aktif pembangkit listrik geothermal masa depan (EGS/AGS) lebih banyak dengan tujuh proyek berjalan. Kemungkinan dibanding PLTB (Bayu/Angin), sama PLTS (Surya), panas bumi ini lebih feasible untuk AS. Mereka punya workforce...

8x8 Pandur. If they replace the Anoa with 6x6 Pandur, then that would be same as USASOC Pandur (AGMS) used in NE Syria backing YPG/YPJ (SDF)

Satrad Takalar Ujung Pandang (Makassar) soon Makassar is quite important for aviation btw. 18.000 ft above in Eastern Indonesia (areas with airport ICAO code WAxx) you contact Ujung Control rather than Jakarta Control. It’s weird if Makassar or Ujung Pandang (or around) don’t have any military...

Bahkan untuk yang urusan luar negeri pun kalo rapi bagus. Operation Neptune Spear sama drone strikes di Pakistan jaman War on Terror itu secara hukum bukan operasi militer (Title 10) since AS secara resmi gak lagi perang di Pakistan, tapi operasi intelijen (CIA/Title 50) yang secara hukum lebih...

Aku suka sama Belanda dengan DSI (Dienst Speciale Interventie) Polisi-nya. Terorisme itu lebih condong urusan penegak hukum (kecuali di Irak, Syria dll), dan peran militer jelas disitu (M-Squadron Marinir), untuk diperbantukan/BKO-kan ke DSI, bukan militer secara terpisah ngurusin terorisme...

Parade bersama Nazi–Soviet di Brest–Litovsk, Polandia, 22 September 1939 Polandia dibancak berdasarkan Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Kalo dibilang Soviet korban, jelas nggak, mereka salah satu yang mulai Perang Dunia 2 juga. Cuman karena perjanjian pertahanan bilateral Polandia–Inggris (dan...

Autonomous Navigation + Autonomous Target Recognition + existing/open-source computer vision Are key parts of rudimentary autonomous (human-out-of-the-loop) jam-proof drone. Lost connections with your drone because of jamming? Don’t worry, your drone has its own brain and looking and neutralize...

Karena AS nge-export control semiconductor untuk training AI ke China; contoh Nvidia A100, H100, H800 sama mesin litografi EUV ASML untuk buat chip sekelas itu yang China gak bisa buat mesin serupa, China bales ngelarang ekspor beberapa critical mineral; beberapa REEs sama gallium ke AS. China...