Theoretical AI Exists. Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test case and the Argument for Transparent Models
In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…
Read More »Negotiating a Greenland Deal: The Role of the Allies
It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…
Read More »Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
Read More »When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict
Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…
Read More »From the Nacelle to the Kill Web: What CMV-22B Readiness Really Buys the Fleet
Capt. Christopher “Chet” Misner’s account of the Nacelle Improvement program in the Summer 2026 issue of…
Read More »Obsidian Shield: How a Modular Pod Is Turning Legacy Aircraft into Kill Web Participants
Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet…
Read More »Shadows Over CEE: Hybrid Sabotage and the Creeping Political Drift Away from Ukraine
Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…
Read More »I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem
The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…
Read More »Rivets or welds? Today’s defense industrial base must relearn the hard-earned lessons of speed over quality
In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank,…
Read More »From Industrial Base to Industrial Network: Rethinking European Strategic Autonomy
Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something…
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