From Lead Nation to Contributing Node: If the Report Is Accurate, Europe’s Admirals Are Planning a North Atlantic With Less Royal Navy

11/03/2026 — By Robbin Laird
If the report is accurate, the most important thing about a quiet meeting of European admirals in Paris this week is not who was in the...
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The One-Way Street Runs the Other Way: Clinton’s WTO Forecast and the BYD Reality

— By Robbin Laird
On March 8, 2000, President Bill Clinton went to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins to make his closing argument...
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Special Report: The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific

11/01/2026 — By Robbin Laird
For three decades, "generation" has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a...
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From Leipzig to Abqaiq: Why Drone Defense Is Now a Whole-of-State Problem

10/31/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

U.S. gaps in drone defense, highlighted by retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, raise questions about the…

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Re-Shaping Defense & Security

Time Is Not an Independent Variable: Why the Navy Must Hold the UJTS Award Date

10/30/2026
By Robbin Laird

Since Boeing withdrew the T-7A Red Hawk from the US Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS)…

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Re-Thinking Strategy

How the Adversary Reads the Impact Force

10/29/2026
By Robbin Laird

In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture…

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Re-Shaping Defense & Security

From Canberra to Tokyo: Undersea Power and the Nuclear Submarine

10/27/2026
By Robbin Laird

Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a…

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Re-Thinking Strategy

Confident Enough to Disagree: What NATO 3.0 Can Learn from How the Cold War Ended

10/25/2026
By Robbin Laird

Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General…

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Re-Thinking Strategy

MUMS-14 and the Impact Force: Closing the Gap Steel Knight Exposed

10/24/2026
By Robbin Laird

On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the…

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10/23/2026

The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific

For three decades, "generation" has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label...
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07/26/2026

Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force

John Blaxland's The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is, on its surface, a work of institutional history. It covers 35 years from Gough Whitlam's election in 1972 to John Howard's defeat in 2007 and catalogues...
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From Tank to Drone Hunter: Rheinmetall, Ukraine and the Leopard 1 Skyranger 35

11/03/2026
By Defense.info

A Leopard 1 was designed in the 1960s to fight Soviet armored columns on the North German Plain. Today, some of those hulls are being stripped of their 105mm turrets and refitted as something their designers never imagined: radar-guided, networked air defense vehicles built to kill drones and cruise missiles over Ukraine. The Leopard 1 Skyranger 35 is a small program by the standards of the war. But it is a useful marker of how the war in Ukraine is reshaping European thinking about air defense, industrial capacity and the value of legacy platforms. It shows that what matters in the drone age is not only the next new platform but the ability to take existing assets, combine them with new sensors and effectors, and get them into...

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