Attacking the Drydock Problem: Robotics and the Compression of Repair Time
There is a phrase that keeps surfacing in conversations with senior Navy leaders and industry executives…
Read More »O Império Informal: Duas Potências Médias, Um Desafio
Nos últimos anos, os decisores políticos ocidentais têm-se consolado com uma narrativa: que a interdependência económica…
Read More »O Brasil, a Austrália e a China no Mundo em Evolução: Video
O que significa ser uma potência média democrática na era da ascensão da China? E por…
Read More »The V-22 Osprey and the Impact Force: From Assault Transport to Kill Web Enabler
I have just published Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos.…
Read More »Matilda 1: A Stern Landing Vessel as a Test Case in USMC–Australian Army Co-Invention
In an earlier article I have argued that the U.S. Marine Corps and the Australian Army…
Read More »Beyond the Battlefield: War as a Phase, Not an Endpoint
A still-common view of war treats it as a parenthesis: first comes competition among states, then…
Read More »Fighting with the Fleet You Have and Building Availability into the Autonomous Systems Age
In 2017, I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett,…
Read More »Weak Signals, Hard Decisions: What the Columbia Mishap Teaches the Sea Services About Risk
The Navy and Marine Corps do not lack risk management (RM) processes. Risk, issue and opportunity…
Read More »Drop the Littoral, Keep the Argument: What Deptula’s Sharpest Objection Gets Right
David Deptula’s response to my piece on the “air littoral” made one argument I did not…
Read More »The “Air Littoral” Does Not Solve the Low-Altitude Problem
Robbin Laird’s recent article, “The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too,” attempts to move the…
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