Trade crosses borders and international experience, knowledge and connections are important and useful for trade and future business development. The aviation sector is probably the most international and boundless branch at the world market. After all, airlines are providing flights to all possible …

Herman Koolstra demonstrates the capacities and limitations of airpower, particularly from the technological point of view. He concludes that airpower is limited in fighting unconventional wars due to the brief exposure of the enemy, both to direct air attack and to the intelligence apparatuses which …

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Over de val van Java in maart 1942 en de snelle ondergang van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger (KNIL) en de geallieerde strijdkrachten op Java in de oorlog tegen Japan, is vrij veel geschreven. Daarbij is echter opvallend weinig, nagenoeg geen, aandacht geschonken aan de samenhang tussen de operaties …

In de periode van 18 tot en met 27 februari 1942 voerden het Wapen der Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger, de Royal Air Force, en de Royal Australian Air Force vanuit West-Java, onder geallieerd bevel, een klassieke Counter-air operatie uit. Deze luchtcampagne was bedoeld …

Since its foundation in 1828 the Royal Netherlands Military Academy (RNLMA) has been considered the principal tool for the officer education of the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) and (later) the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). This position is not entirely justified. During almost the entire period …

In 1999 the Gele Rijders (Yellow Riders), the traditional name for the soldiers of 11 Battalion Horse Artillery, and with them soldiers, hussars, and gunners of numerous other units, were deployed to the municipality of Orahovac in Kosovo. In the evaluation report the Secretary of Defence sent to Parliament …

The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly …