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…
Read More »Rebuild or Disperse: What the Gulf Bases Decision Says About Posture
The first postwar choice the Pentagon faces in the Gulf is not which bases to repair.…
Read More »MUMS-14 and the Impact Force: Closing the Gap Steel Knight Exposed
On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the…
Read More »Britain’s High North Gap: Frigates, Submarines and Command
The House of Commons Defence Committee has published “Defence in the High North” (HC 71), and…
Read More »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 »AUKUS and the Building of Australian Undersea Power: John Blaxland Makes the Case
In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS…
Read More »France and Chad Restore Defense Cooperation on New Terms
France and Chad have signed a letter of intent to restore defense cooperation, less than two…
Read More »Regenerative Airpower: The Next Generation Is an Enterprise, Not a Platform
The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades.…
Read More »AUKUS: Strategic Imperative or Costly Mistake?
Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP…
Read More »Insourcing versus Integration: Toyota, BYD, and Two Roads to the Global Market
In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD…
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