From Lead Nation to Contributing Node: If the Report Is Accurate, Europe’s Admirals Are Planning a North Atlantic With Less Royal Navy
If the report is accurate, the most important thing about a quiet meeting of European admirals…
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The Rossio Square in central Lisbon is one of the Portuguese capital’s great attractions. Rebuilt by…
Read More »What Ukraine’s Organizational Innovation Teaches the Impact Force
When I Marine Expeditionary Force ran Steel Knight 2025, participants referred to the war in Ukraine…
Read More »Telling the Adversary Just Enough: Ghost Shark and Deterrence by Disclosure
On 19 October, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy revealed three capabilities of the Ghost Shark extra-large…
Read More »The One-Way Street Runs the Other Way: Clinton’s WTO Forecast and the BYD Reality
On March 8, 2000, President Bill Clinton went to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced…
Read More »Shaping the Way Ahead for Japanese Defense
Japan is rebuilding its security architecture around “denial,” and in the last week of October the…
Read More »Special Report: 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.…
Read More »From Leipzig to Abqaiq: Why Drone Defense Is Now a Whole-of-State Problem
U.S. gaps in drone defense, highlighted by retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, raise questions about the…
Read More »From Factory to Capability: What Western Australia’s Shipyards Still Need
Money builds a precinct. Demand, labour and suppliers build a capability. That is the discipline running…
Read More »Time Is Not an Independent Variable: Why the Navy Must Hold the UJTS Award Date
Since Boeing withdrew the T-7A Red Hawk from the US Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS)…
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