Key Developments
Australia and Indonesia: Co-Inventing Amphibious Power in the Archipelago
The November 2024 amphibious landing at Banongan Beach in East Java marked more than the largest…
Read More »The MARTAC T38’s 192-Hour Mission: Proof of Concept for the Mesh Fleet
When Maritime Tactical Systems (MARTAC) announced that its T38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel had completed…
Read More »Always Ready, Persistently Under-Resourced: The USCG Arctic Story
The United States Coast Guard has spent the better part of the twenty-first century being asked…
Read More »From Reactive to Proactive: Predictive Maintenance and the CH-53K’s Operational Edge
There is a question that tends to get lost in discussions of new military aircraft: Not…
Read More »Marine Raiders, MARTAC Boats, and the Making of a Philippine Porcupine Defense
The intersection of Marine special operations expertise, maritime autonomous systems, and Philippine archipelagic geography is generating…
Read More »All Military Technology is Relative Against a Reactive Enemy
A conceptual “white paper” think piece. The meaning of U.S. “kill web” warfighting capabilities is captured…
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Book Review
04/28/2026
The fifth edition of The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Howard Simmons and Lt. Col. Charles Patrick Neimeyer stands as the definitive single-volume chronicle of America's amphibious force-in-readiness. Spanning from the Continental Marines of 1775 through modern conflicts, this Naval...
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