Geostrategic Perspectives: Securing Australia in a Fractured World
Professor Rory Medcalf opened the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s October 1 seminar on air combat mass…
Read More »Putin’s Choice: How The Global War in Ukraine Explains Sikorski’s Kaliningrad Gambit
On September 11, 2026, at the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław…
Read More »Mass, Depth and Reach: The Williams Foundation Asks Whether Australia’s Air Force Is Built Effectively for the Indo-Pacific Fight
The second Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar of 2026 opened with a question its organizers said…
Read More »Influence Without Occupation: A Future U.S. Strategy for Iraq
On 30 September 2026, Ali Al-Zaidi, Iraq’s prime minister and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, marked…
Read More »Mastering Chaos: How the Marine Corps Is Reinventing Itself for an Age Without Sanctuaries
For two decades, the United States Marine Corps built its identity around a particular kind of…
Read More »The Historian of the Seminars: Watching Australian Airpower Cross Three Thresholds
I have been coming to Australia since 2014 to write the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminars.…
Read More »Regulate the Use, Not the Idea: An AI White Paper, Round Two
In my first AI White Paper, Theoretical AI Exists, Applied AI Is Now in Play: A…
Read More »BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence
Dateline, Canberra, Austrlia I have just arrived in Canberra for the October 1 seminar hosted by…
Read More »China’s Trade War Isn’t With Washington. It’s With Everyone
Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest,…
Read More »Disengagement Is Not a Strategy: Rethinking Australia’s Alliance Debate
As I prepare to return to Australia for the October 1 Sir Richard Williams Seminar, an…
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