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)…
Read More »NIST’s New AI Incident Guidance Needs a Defense Recovery Drill
Defense organizations adopting AI agents need more than assurances that a system will follow instructions. They…
Read More »How the Adversary Reads the Impact Force
In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture…
Read More »Ten Times the Rate: A German Auto Supplier Will Build Loitering Munitions for France
German automotive supplier Schaeffler will assemble a new batch of loitering munitions ordered by France from…
Read More »From Canberra to Tokyo: Undersea Power and the Nuclear Submarine
Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a…
Read More »What the Williams Foundation Seminar Told Us About the Next Generation
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra on 1 October, The Requirement for Air Combat…
Read More »SACEUR’s Theory of Victory: Stop the Attacker, Not Defeat Him
NATO’s top military commander has set out a theory of victory that limits the Alliance’s aim…
Read More »Confident Enough to Disagree: What NATO 3.0 Can Learn from How the Cold War Ended
Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General…
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