Mastering the Kill Web: How MISR Became the Navy’s Quiet Revolution
Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the…
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For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…
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In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…
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It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…
Read More »Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
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Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…
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The U.S. Air Force carries a large inventory of transports, tankers, and support aircraft that were never built with today's networked, sensor-fused Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) architecture in mind. The conventional fix, deep structural and avionics modification, airframe by airframe, is slow and expensive at precisely the moment the threat environment is outrunning the acquisition cycle. Obsidian Shield, a new offering from Newport News-based Integrity Defense Solutions, Inc. (IDS), is pitched as a way to close that gap now rather than waiting on a full recapitalization program that may take years to materialize. The Design Logic: Open, Modular, Bolt-On IDS describes Obsidian Shield as resting on a "truly modular, open-systems approach" paired with an "affordable, scalable production path." The intent is an architecture that can be...