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 preparedness of other countries. From the protection of strategic infrastructure...
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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) competition in June, critics have asked whether the service should...
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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 in the Western Pacific and draws a clear conclusion: the...
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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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Re-Thinking Strategy

Insourcing versus Integration: Toyota, BYD, and Two Roads to the Global Market

10/22/2026
By Robbin Laird

In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD…

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Maritime Dynamics

From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade

10/20/2026
By Robbin Laird

Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…

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Re-Thinking Strategy

NATO 3.0 and the Unfinished Pillar: What Rutte Did Not Say at Ditchley

10/18/2026
By Robbin Laird

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16,…

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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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Germany’s Air Force Says It Is Building Offensive Space Capabilities Out to Geostationary Orbit, and Will Not Rule Out Kinetic Effects

10/30/2026
By Defense.info

Germany's top air force officer has said the Bundeswehr is developing offensive capabilities in space that can reach every orbit up to geostationary altitude. He would not rule out kinetic means. At the same event, a defence ministry general described new contracts that pay launch providers to hold capacity in reserve before any payload has been chosen. The general called this approach unusual under Germany's federal budget rules. What Was Said at Ottobrunn The specialist outlet hartpunkt reports that Lieutenant General Holger Neumann, Chief of the Luftwaffe, spoke on 21 October at the third space symposium hosted by the Luftwaffe and IABG in Ottobrunn. He stressed that NATO is a defensive alliance, "but if we are attacked, we will strike back." He said the aim is effects "in...

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