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Building the Navy-After-Next

05/15/2026
By George Galdorisi

The U.S. Navy is at an inflection point. Two curves are moving in the wrong direction:…

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Australia’s Defence Crossroads: From Platforms to Architecture in a Contested Indo-Pacific

05/15/2026
By Robbin Laird

As I return from my latest visit to Australia, I am thinking back on my time…

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Australia’s Strategic Advantages and How to Exploit Them: Rounding Up the Williams Foundation Seminar Insights

05/13/2026
By Robbin Laird

The “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage” seminar produced a remarkably coherent and candid body of…

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Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage

05/12/2026
By Robbin Laird

Australia’s “fight tonight” question has become urgent. Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage distils the 23…

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Britain After the Local Elections: Reform’s Surge, Nationalist Strength, and a Transitional Party System

05/12/2026
By Second Line of Defense Analytical Team

The recent local and devolved elections point less to a settled new order than to a…

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Organizing for War-Winning AI: Combine AI with Cyber Command

05/12/2026
By Ed Timperlake

“Trustworthy AI” was the research focus of Dr. Jeannette Wing’s presentation at the United States Naval…

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Air Marshal Stephen Chappell and the RAAF: Building Fighting Depth for Australia’s Integrated Force

05/12/2026
By Robbin Laird

At the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage,” Air Marshal Stephen…

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The Industrial Logic of Australia’s Strategic Advantage

05/11/2026
By Robbin Laird

There is a word that does not get spoken at national security conferences. Richard Morris, Pursuit…

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Australia and Indonesia: Co-Inventing Amphibious Power in the Archipelago

05/11/2026
By Robbin Laird

The November 2024 amphibious landing at Banongan Beach in East Java marked more than the largest…

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Fight Tonight: The Hard Work of Industrial Readiness

05/10/2026
By Robbin Laird

The Williams Foundation seminars have long served as a crucible for serious thinking about Australian defence.…

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10/26/2026
By Defense.info

SACEUR’s Theory of Victory: Stop the Attacker, Not Defeat Him

NATO’s top military commander has set out a theory of victory that limits the Alliance’s aim in a war on its territory. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on October…

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10/23/2026
By Robbin Laird

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 twice in two days, to two very different audiences. On October 16, he and…

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10/22/2026
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AUKUS: Strategic Imperative or Costly Mistake?

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09/11/2026
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The Age of Urgency: Rear Adm. McCoy on Rebuilding the Navy’s Aviator Pipeline

Originally published in Breaking Defense, September 4, 2026 Rear Adm. Max “Pepper” McCoy, the Chief of Naval Air Training, describes the system he runs as a factory conveyor belt: the…

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Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force

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A Bridge Between History and Transformation: Reviewing The United States Marines: A History (Fifth Edition)

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The Age of Chaos: Kill Web Warfare, Authoritarian Coercion, and the Democratic Advantage

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10/17/2026

The Safety Valve: Why Local News Matters in an Age of Super-Intelligence

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Fight’s On: A Magic Eight Ball Takes On the SI Doomsayers

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10/24/2026
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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. It is whether to restore the old footprint at all. A senior defense official,…

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Regenerative Airpower: The Next Generation Is an Enterprise, Not a Platform

By Robin Laird

The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades. We speak of fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft, and now of sixth-generation fighters, as if the word described a property of the machine. A generation is a step change

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