Two Years On: How the Second Trump Administration Has Rewired the Relationship Between Acquisition and the Defense Industrial Base
When I wrote in September 2025 about the five-year multiyear procurement for up to 99 CH-53K…
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The surge in bomb threats targeting European air traffic since early November 2026 is eerily reminiscent…
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Over the past year, our coverage of artificial intelligence on Second Line of Defense and Defense.info…
Read More »From the Incomplete Superpower to Strategic Collision: Paul Dibb Reads China
Before I came to Australia in 2014, I was part of a global sovietological community. I…
Read More »Logic, Data, and the Enterprise: Why AI in Aircraft Sustainment Starts Somewhere Other Than the Maintenance Shop
A question that sounds technical is in fact strategic: what does it take to make artificial…
Read More »Data Precedes Artificial Intelligence
There is a simple proposition at the heart of the debate over artificial intelligence in military…
Read More »Sustainment as Strategy: What Comes After the Platform Is Bought
For a generation, allied defense debates have been conducted at the moment of purchase. How many…
Read More »The Week in Briefs: Hybrid Fleets, Shrinking Ranks and Disappearing Paper Trails
This week’s In Briefs on Second Line of Defense covered thirteen items across Europe, the Indo-Pacific…
Read More »Two Anchors, One Web: Japan, Australia and the Industrial Logic of Denial
In April 2026, at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra, Justin Bronk of RUSI…
Read More »From the Show Floor to the Fleet: Naval Drones at Euronaval 2026 and Beyond
Army Recognition’s video report from Euronaval 2026 offered a useful snapshot of where unmanned maritime systems…
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