Malacca as a Case Study: Alliance Documents, Strategic Games, and the Architecture of Deterrence
The Malacca Strait is a narrow waterway with outsized strategic significance, where alliance commitments, strategic gaming,…
Read More »IBCS at the Crossroads: From Flight Tests to the Fight That Matters
The Integrated Battle Command System did not spring from a blank sheet. It emerged from a…
Read More »Two Models, One Logic: What the CH-53K Training Revolution Tells Us About the Navy’s Next Trainer
In the fall of 2010, I was at Marine Corps Air Station New River talking to…
Read More »From Platform Mastery to Ecosystem Management: The Unfinished Revolution in Military Transformation
There is a persistent conceit in Washington defense circles — that military transformation is something you…
Read More »Jamie Dimon’s Call to Arms: JPMorganChase and Shaping the Way Ahead
The JPMorgan CEO’s 2025 annual letter delivers a sweeping strategic vision for military strength, economic primacy,…
Read More »Australian Defence 2026: The Sir Richard Williams 23 April 2026 Seminar Report
This report argues that Australia must treat “fight tonight” as an immediate, whole‑of‑nation standard and shows…
Read More »
Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Matthew Isler has written a serious and well-grounded assessment of where integrated air and missile defense stands today and where it must go. Published in War on the Rocks on May 14, 2026, his piece, "The New Era of Air and Missile Defense", deserves close reading by anyone thinking through the future of distributed, networked warfare. More than that, it deserves to be placed in a broader analytical context, because what Isler describes as a structural failure of current defensive architecture is precisely what the kill web concept anticipated, and what recent combat, above all, Operation Epic Fury and the subsequent regional defense against Iranian retaliation, has now validated at operational scale. Isler's core argument is that modern air and missile defense...