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…
Read More »The Grid is the Kill Web: Rethinking Power Wars as a Mesh Force Problem
Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek have done the defense community a service with their CIMSEC piece,…
Read More »The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too: What the Kill Web Fleet Can Teach the Airpower Debate
Two pieces published within eight days of each other in late July 2026 stake out what…
Read More »From Hosting to Co-Invention: The USMC and the Australian Army in Evolution
The contemporary relationship between the United States Marine Corps and the Australian Army has quietly outgrown…
Read More »Strategic Military Lessons from Ukraine and Israel
War is evolving from a competition between armed forces into a competition between complex national systems.…
Read More »The M-346 at Farnborough 2026: The Block 20 Story Continues
When I wrote Training for the High-End Fight, I gave Leonardo’s Block 20 program for the…
Read More »The Hybrid Fleet Concept: Taking a Hard Look at the Way Ahead
I read the critique of the UK’s Hybrid Navy concept when it was published, and I…
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