Multi-Mission Force Multiplication: Phil Gordon on Generating Combat Mass by Doing More with What You Have
When a Lockheed Martin executive takes the stage at an air power seminar, the room expects…
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Four months after the collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) it had pursued for…
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There is a moment early in my conversation with Stephen Kuper on Defence Connect’s Contested Ground…
Read More »NATO 3.0 and the Unfinished Pillar: What Rutte Did Not Say at Ditchley
When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16,…
Read More »The Safety Valve: Why Local News Matters in an Age of Super-Intelligence
On Friday evening, October 16, 2026, in beautiful Rappahannock County, the Foothills Forum held its annual…
Read More »Building Mass with Industry: Industrial Capacity Is Combat Power
The session on building mass with industry opened with a disclaimer. Air Vice Marshal Robert Denney,…
Read More »Fight’s On: A Magic Eight Ball Takes On the SI Doomsayers
The Magic Eight Ball is a toy designed to answer yes-or-no questions with fortune-teller-style replies. It…
Read More »Building Depth: How Indo-Pacific Allies Are Hardening for a Long Contest
The headlines in the Indo-Pacific tend to focus on the visible: carrier movements, missile tests, coast…
Read More »Combat Depth, Not Just Mass: Collaborative Combat Aircraft and the Australian Industrial Base
The most useful argument at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on air combat mass and…
Read More »An Intel Alert So There Is No 21st Century Pearl Harbor
Countless books about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor show that hard intelligence was there in…
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