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…
Read More »Germany Explores Ground-Based Anti-Satellite Lasers
Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites. According to…
Read More »Five Airmen on the Way Ahead for Airpower
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in…
Read More »From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade
Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…
Read More »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…
Read More »France Goes It Alone on a Sixth-Generation Fighter
Four months after the collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) it had pursued for…
Read More »An Odyssey, Not a Career: Navigating the Age of Chaos
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…
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