From Crisis to Confidence: How the V-22 Nacelle Improvement Program Delivered the Readiness Revolution the Osprey Needed

04/07/2026 — By Robbin Laird
The story of the V-22 Osprey's transformation from a maintenance-intensive platform to a readiness success offers critical lessons for defense acquisition and sustainment. At the heart...
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The Age of Chaos: The Changing Rules of Shaping the Global Order

04/06/2026 — By Robbin Laird
Consider the classic board game. Its appeal is simple: a rule book, a shared set of constraints, and the comforting assurance that every player at the...
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The 2026 Marine Aviation Plan and Steel Knight 25: Turning Project Eagle into Combat Practice

04/03/2026 — By Robbin Laird
The 2026 Marine Aviation Plan marks a pivot point for Marine Corps aviation, moving from Force Design rhetoric to a structured blueprint for a distributed, data‑driven,...
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The Global War in Ukraine Reaches the Gulf

04/02/2026
By Robbin Laird

When Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi to sign long-term defense agreements, he…

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The Nacelle Improvement Program in Light of 2026 Aviation Plan

03/31/2026
By Robbin Laird

The 2026 Marine Corps Aviation Plan marks a critical strategic decision in the evolution of the…

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Leadership in the Age of Chaos

03/31/2026
By Robbin Laird

We are not living through a passing disturbance. We are living through a systemic transition from…

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Transforming Marine Aviation Sustainment: The AI/ML Revolution in the 2026 Marine Aviation Plan

03/30/2026
By Robbin Laird

The 2026 Marine Aviation Plan represents a watershed moment in how the Marine Corps approaches aviation…

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From Cyberspace to the Quantum Realm

03/28/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

For over three decades, cybersecurity has been one of the invisible yet crucial pillars of the…

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Building the Arsenal of Democracy Globally

03/27/2026
By Robbin Laird

The entry of South Korea and Japan into the NATO-managed Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PUR) is…

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01/03/2026

Evolving Geopolitics: The Perspective of Pasquale Preziosa

This collection of articles by Lieutenant General (Retired) Pasquale Preziosa presents a comprehensive analysis of the rapidly transforming...
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03/24/2026

The Age of Chaos: Kill Web Warfare, Authoritarian Coercion, and the Democratic Advantage

A $1,000 commercial drone  strapped with explosives and used to systematically destroy a $50 million strategic bomber on a Russian airfield. That is not science fiction. It happened in Ukraine, and it shattered the economic mathematics of modern warfare in...
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Raiders of the Lost Name: Speculating on the Name for the Army’s New Tiltrotor

04/10/2026
By Robbin Laird

In the realm of U. S. Army aviation, the name of its aircraft means more than just plain marketing. It’s a battle standard and a bridge across generations. As the Army readies its revolutionary MV-75 tiltrotor for service, the aircraft already carries an official mission-design series designation: MV for multi-mission vertical takeoff, and 75 to salute the Continental Army’s 1775 birth. But every soldier knows the real question: What will the troops actually call it on the radio? History supplies the answer, and it’s a story worth retelling, one that began with a General’s allergy to insect monikers and continues today as a living link between ancient warrior traditions and tomorrow’s long-range air assaults. The naming tradition traces to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Army aviation was shedding its experimental...

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