Key Developments

Logic, Data, and the Enterprise: Why AI in Aircraft Sustainment Starts Somewhere Other Than the Maintenance Shop

11/09/2026
By Robbin Laird

A question that sounds technical is in fact strategic: what does it take to make artificial…

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Two Anchors, One Web: Japan, Australia and the Industrial Logic of Denial

11/08/2026
By Robbin Laird

In April 2026, at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra, Justin Bronk of RUSI…

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Present at the Creation of the Kill Web: From Manazir’s Navy to Taiwan’s Turn

11/06/2026
By Robbin Laird

On 3 November, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense told its legislature that the force is moving…

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Three Allies, One Undersea Turn: Korea, Japan and Australia Move Toward Nuclear Submarines

11/05/2026
By Robbin Laird

Three U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific are now moving toward nuclear-powered submarines on different clocks and…

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Beyond Cyber Defense: Building a Resilient Nation

11/04/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

The bill on strengthening national defense introduces a new regulatory framework for the protection of military…

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The One-Way Street Runs the Other Way: Clinton’s WTO Forecast and the BYD Reality

11/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

On March 8, 2000, President Bill Clinton went to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced…

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Special Reports
10/23/2026
For three decades, "generation" has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label...
Book Review
11/06/2026
A UNSW doctoral thesis by an RAAF officer focusing on how to turn drone technology forecasting from expert opinion into a repeatable method, and hands the ADF a three-way decision rule: acquire, invest, or wait. Keirin Joyce's doctoral thesis, First...
Featured Defense System
11/11/2026
By Defense.info

Fincantieri and Navantia have agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture to run their national European Patrol Corvette programmes and to sell the ship for export. Naval Group sits in the design consortium for the next phase of the programme, but it has not committed to the joint venture. The agreements were signed at Euronaval in Paris on 4 November. There were two of them. The first was a three-company consortium agreement among Fincantieri, Navantia and Naval Group, signed with representatives of the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) present. It moves the programme from its first phase (EPC1) to its second (EPC2). The programme's official European Defence Fund name is the Modular and Multirole Patrol Corvette. EPC1 covered concept studies, preliminary design, key technologies and common standards....

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